Showing posts with label celibacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celibacy. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Sandro Magister: The next synod will be on married priests

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ROME, December 9, 2015 - While waiting for Pope Francis to rule on communion for the divorced and remarried, which two synods discussed and...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Pope Francis has married clergy "in my agenda"

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Details at Rorate . This is an internal disciplinary issue for the Latin Church and  can mostly be filed under the heading "none of ...
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Sunday, December 14, 2014

Gay Christians choosing celibacy emerge from the closet

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When Eve Tushnet converted to Catholicism in 1998, she thought she might be the world’s first celibate Catholic lesbian. Having grown up i...
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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Vatican Approves Married Clergy for Eastern Rite in the West

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The Vatican has taken steps to end a long simmering controversy. With the approval of Pope Francis, most restrictions in the diaspora on ord...
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Friday, June 06, 2014

Ortho-Cath Ecumenical Group calls for married clergy in Eastern Rite

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Read the story here . Mixed feeling on this one. I deeply sympathize with the Greek Rite Catholics who have lived with 2nd class status in t...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Pope Francis hints at relaxation of mandatory clerical celibacy

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...“I told him that as bishop of Brazil’s largest diocese with 800 church communities and 700,000 faithful I only had 27 priests, which m...
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Sunday, November 04, 2012

Attention Protestant Clergy Thinking About Rome (or Catholics thinking about the Diaconate)

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Dr. Ed Peters, a leading canon lawyer of the Roman Catholic Church has written something that you should consider very carefully if you are...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Eastern Rite Catholics Complain of Roman Interference and Indifference

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 Gathered for their ad limina, Eastern Catholic bishops from the U.S. were addressed last week by Prefect of the Congregation for the Orien...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Vatican pushes celibacy on Eastern Catholic clergy

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The money quote... On what theological grounds can the jurisdiction of the Eastern Churches be restricted to the “historical territories”,...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

A really really bad article on priests' wives

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I am not going to excerpt this one.  If you want to read it go here .  Seriously, it is so ridiculous it borders on insulting.  This is not ...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

Roman Catholic bishops veto married Eastern Rite priests in Italy

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Italian news sources are reporting that the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) has vetoed the idea of allowing married priests of the Romani...
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Monday, January 31, 2011

More talk in Rome of a doctrinal basis for clerical celibacy

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See this post at Rorate Caeli . The implications for Eastern Rite Catholics are well worth considering.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Met. +Hilarion criticizes the mandatory celibacy of the Roman Church

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Moscow, September 15, Interfax - The Moscow Patriarchate supports the idea to cancel celibacy of the Catholic clergy. "Mandatory celiba...
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Thursday, June 03, 2010

+Batholomew speaks - a major problem for military chaplains - and Met. +Hilarion on Rome and celibacy

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Josephus over at Byzantine Texas has several excellent posts up that I recommend... An interview with Patriarch +Bartholomew . A discussion ...
Monday, March 22, 2010

The NY Times discovers Greek Rite Catholics... (because their clergy are not celibate)

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RUDNO, Ukraine — Let the rest of Europe be convulsed by debates over whether the celibacy of Roman Catholic priests is causing sex abuse sca...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Rome: Clerical celibacy to remain normative and extended to the entire church including the East

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From an interview with Father Laurent Touze (emphasis mine). ZENIT: With this measure, do you think that one day, celibacy might become volu...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

A Mother, a Sick Son and His Father, the Priest

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O’FALLON, Mo. — With three small children and her marriage in trouble, Pat Bond attended a spirituality retreat for Roman Catholic women in ...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

A Roman Priest's Case For Celibacy

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The scandal surrounding the Rev. Alberto Cutie has raised questions in the minds of many concerning the Catholic Church's discipline of ...
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