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  2. Clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Clerical celibacy - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Clerical marriage - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Pope Francis: Catholic church should study allowing married ...

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    The Catholic church must look into the possibility of allowing married men to become ordained priests, according to a new interview with Pope Francis.

  6. Impediment (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    The Canon Law of Marriage and the Family, by John McAreavey, Four Courts Press, 1997. ISBN 1-85182-356-5. The Invalid Marriage, by Lawrence G. Wrenn, Canon Law Society of America, 1998. ISBN 0-943616-78-6. Canon Law: A Text and Commentary, by T. Lincoln Bouscaren and Adam C. Ellis, Bruce Publishing Company, four editions. Deals with the 1917 ...

  7. L.A. Catholic church covered up molesting priests for decades ...

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    The bill reflects its rank as the largest archdiocese in the nation, with more than 4 million members, and a California law that gave accusers more time to file suit.

  8. Texas priest gets 10 years for molesting children

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    A Texas priest who was accused of sexual abuse after allegedly assaulting children decades ago has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. According to Click2Houston, Father Manuel La Rosa-Lopez ...

  9. Affinity (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Canon 109 of the Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church provides that affinity is an impediment to the marriage of a couple, and is a relationship which "arises from a valid marriage, even if not consummated, and exists between a man and the blood relatives of the woman and between the woman and the blood relatives of the man."