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  2. Clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    [94] [95] In June 2019, German bishop Franz-Josef Bode (Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück) said, there can be clerical celibacy priests and also married priests in Roman Catholic Church. In December 2019, German bishop Heinrich Timmerevers answered also, there can be married priests in Catholic Church. [96]

  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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    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]

  5. Senior Vatican official makes case for a married priesthood - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Top 10 stories: Jail death case unresolved; former Mansfield ...

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    No. 8: Former Mansfield priest imprisoned for life A Roman Catholic priest who had ties to Mansfield was sentenced last month to life in prison on federal sex-trafficking charges.

  7. 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.

  8. Sex and gender roles in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Ordination of women and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church does not regard the priest as the only possible prayer leader, and prayer may be led by a woman. For example, when no priest, deacon, instituted lector or instituted acolyte is available, lay people (either men and women) may be appointed by the pastor to celebrate a Liturgy of the Word and distribute Holy Communion (which ...