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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 Roman Catholic Church should "seriously think" about allowing priests to marry, a senior Vatican official and advisor to Pope Francis said in an interview published on Sunday. "This is ...
However, the priests of the higher classes were punished most severely for sexual crimes. They were stripped of their rank, position, and income. [45] The wife and children of the priest were thrown out of their house, [46] and the priests could be thrown in a monastery for the remainder of their lives and their wife and children enslaved. [34]
The Catholic church must look into the possibility of allowing married men to become ordained priests, according to a new interview with Pope Francis.
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Notably, priests in the Latin Church must take a vow of celibacy, whereas most Eastern Catholic Churches permit married men to be ordained. [3] Deacons are male and usually belong to the diocesan clergy, but, unlike almost all Latin Church (Western Catholic) priests and all bishops from Eastern or Western Catholicism, they may marry as laymen ...