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The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, in general, rule out ordination of married men to the episcopate, and marriage after priestly ordination. Throughout the Catholic Church, East as well as West, a priest may not marry. In the Eastern Catholic Churches, a married priest is one who married before being ordained.
In some Christian churches, such as the western and some eastern sections of the Catholic Church, priests and bishops must as a rule be unmarried men. In others, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, the churches of Oriental Orthodoxy and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests, but may not remarry if their wife dies, and celibacy is required ...
Like the Eastern Churches, the Catholic Church does not allow clerical marriage, although many of the Eastern Catholic Churches do allow the ordination of married men as priests. Within the Catholic Church, the Latin Church generally follows the discipline of clerical celibacy , which means that, as a rule, only unmarried or widowed men are ...
The Catholic church must look into the possibility of allowing married men to become ordained priests, according to a new interview with Pope Francis.
The Roman Catholic Church says that they are having a priest shortage — not enough priests for the parishes in the tri-county area. There is a simple solution to that: ordain women to the ...
Stanley Tucci believes he has the answer to all of the Catholic Church’s problems.. The 64-year-old is starring as Aldo Cardinal Bellini, in Edward Berger’s forthcoming film Conclave, about an ...
Two months before his death in 2005, Pope John Paul II, troubled by the sex scandals in the US, Austria, and Ireland, [7] had written to the Congregation for Catholic Education: "Right from the moment young men enter a Seminary their ability to live a life of celibacy should be monitored so that before their ordination one should be morally ...
An Australian public inquiry panel in 2015 claimed that priests being celibate may have also contributed to abuse. [34] Expert witness at the Royal Commission, Dr Carolyn Quadrio said at the time that she did not believe celibacy drives child abuse, but rather men who see children as sex objects are drawn to the priesthood as a profession. [35 ...