Pope Benedict has called a meeting Thursday with top Vatican officials to discuss lifting the celibacy requirement for priests seeking to marry or who have already married.
Benedict called the summit to examine the implications of the "disobedience" of Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, the Zambian prelate excommunicated in September for installing four married American men as bishops, the Vatican said Monday. Milingo himslef married a South Korean acupuncturist chosen for him by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church.
The Vatican stressed the meeting would not open a general discussion of the celibacy requirement but would only examine requests for dispensation made by priests wishing to marry and requests for readmission made by clergy who had married in recent years.
AP
3 comments:
I don't think priest being married is a good idea, where in the bible does it say that the disciples were married?
Peter had a mother-in-law.
http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Sep2006/Wiseman.asp#top
This was kinda interesting.
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