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In general, the Eastern Catholic Churches allow ordination of married men as priests. Within the lands of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the largest Eastern Rite Catholic Church, priests' children often became priests and married within their social group, establishing a tightly-knit hereditary caste. [116]
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 debate over whether Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to married has been around for centuries. Priests are allowed to marry in the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church as well as in the ...
In general, Eastern Catholic Churches have always allowed ordination of married men as priests and deacons. Within the lands of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the second largest Eastern Catholic Church, priests' children often became priests and married within their social group, establishing a tightly knit hereditary caste. [14]
In October 2019, many of the bishops at the Amazon Synod in Rome said that married priests should be allowed in the Roman Catholic Church. [111] Pope Francis neglected the celibacy issue in the post-synodal documents, maintaining prior rules on celibacy for Catholic priests. [112]
Actor plays a priest during an election for the pope in the forthcoming film ‘Conclave’ Stanley Tucci says church would improve if priests were allowed to marry: ‘It would change everything ...
In 2014, the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland stated that the Catholic Church must ordain women and allow priests to marry in order to survive. [ 104 ] In 2014, the Bishop of Basel, Felix Gmür , allowed the Basel Catholic church corporations, which are officially only responsible for church finances, to formulate an initiative ...
Free Press readers weigh in on the woes of the Catholic Church, the narrowly averted shutdown, the Israel-Hamas war and aid to Ukraine.