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They thus admit clerical marriage, not merely the appointment of already married persons as pastors. But in view of 1 Timothy 3:2 and 3:12, some do not admit a second marriage by a widowed pastor. In these denominations there is generally no requirement that a pastor be already married nor prohibition against marrying after "answering the call ...
[90] [91] In March 2019, German bishop Stefan Oster (Roman Catholic Diocese of Passau) said, there can be also married priests in Roman Catholic Church. [92] In Lingen the German catholic bishops started a reform group under leadership of bishop Felix Genn ( Roman Catholic Diocese of Münster ) to talk over a reform of clerical celibacy for ...
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 ...
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 Catholic Church has different rules for the priesthood in the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches than those in the Latin Church. The chief difference is that most of the Eastern Catholic Churches ordain married men, whereas the Latin Church, with very few exceptions, enforces mandatory clerical celibacy. This issue has caused tension among ...
The majority of married diocesan priests historically have not served as pastors of diocesan parishes, though there are now some exceptions. [5] A few priests work at secular occupations to support their families, but the majority serve in chaplaincies and in teaching or administrative positions.
Eastern Catholic Churches while allowing married men to be ordained, do not allow clerical marriage after ordination: their parish priests are often married, but must marry before being ordained to the priesthood. [19] Eastern Catholic Churches require celibacy only for bishops.
During the Warsaw Uprising (1944), a Polish couple, members of an Armia Krajowa resistance group, are married in a secret Catholic chapel in a street in Warsaw. In Roman Catholic teaching, marriage has two objectives: the good of the spouses themselves, [ 40 ] and the procreation and education of children (1983 code of canon law, c.1055; 1994 ...