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While married deacons whose wives die are sometimes permitted to marry again, and married ministers of a non-Catholic confession who become Catholics are sometimes permitted to be ordained and minister in the Catholic Church, grants of dispensation from the obligation of celibacy without simultaneous laicization are very rare.
A defrocked clergyman is prohibited from celebrating the sacraments (Holy Baptism and Holy Communion). [19] A United Methodist elder or deacon may only have their credentials revoked through voluntary surrender or church trial.
If a bishop receives a priest into his diocese who belongs to another diocese, both the priest and the bishop are excommunicated. Those who concoct two natures of the Lord before the union but imagine a single one after the union. Religious or laity who attempt to produce another creed.
By JOHN HEILPRIN and NICOLE WINFIELD May 6, 7:10 PM EDT GENEVA (AP) -- The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and ...
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.
Pope Francis on Thursday defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. The case of Roger Vangheluwe, the ...
Suspended in 1969 after his resignation and marriage, because of his opposition to Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae. Marco Bisceglia. Suspended in 1975 for performing a blessing of gay Catholic couple. The couple was not real; Bisceglia was approached by two right-wing journalists from Il Borghese, posing as a gay couple. [5]
Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked as a United Methodist Church pastor after telling her Philadelphia congregation that she was in a committed same-sex relationship. In a closed meeting ...