Posted on 11/22/2009 1:24:11 PM PST by NYer
OVER 4,000 Anglican priests all over the world, including married ones, are expected to join the Catholic Church, Bishop Matthias Ssekamanya announced on Friday.
Ssekamanya, who doubles as the chancellor of Uganda Martyrs University, said this does not mean that the Catholic Church is removing the requirement for priests to remain unmarried.
“We are not becoming soft on celibacy for Catholic priests. We shall also not tolerate homosexuals and polygamous marriages in the Catholic Church,” he added.
He was officiating at the 15th graduation ceremony of the Nkozi-based university.
Vatican officials announced that married Anglican priests would be allowed to remain in the priesthood on a case-by-case basis as they join the Roman Catholic fold.
The Vatican’s decision to allow Anglicans to keep some aspects of their liturgy had raised questions over whether the Catholic requirement for celibacy might change.
The Vatican this month released rules and guidelines, known as the Apostolic Constitution, as part of efforts to make it easier for disillusioned, traditionalist Anglicans to cross over to the Roman Catholic Church.
Under the Vatican’s initiative, Anglicans, turned off by their own church’s embrace of gay clerics, women priests and blessing of same-sex unions, can join new parishes, called ‘personal ordinariates’, that are headed by former Anglican prelates.
“There is no change in the Church’s discipline of clerical celibacy,” Bishop Ssekamanya re-affirmed. He praised celibacy as “a sign and a stimulus for pastoral charity”.
The ceremony had 236 students graduating with masters, 522 with bachelors, 13 with advanced diplomas, 212 with diplomas and 10 with certificates.
This story is apparently out of Uganda.
“We are not becoming soft on celibacy for Catholic priests.”
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Good news all around.
But....what?
Well Dr. Rowan Williams can keep gushing about how sharia in the UK is a good idea. He is so clueless.
The boys in the Vatican are far from perfect but they are the only force that has stood up to the cult of death for 1400 + years. The current Pope understands what is going on.
Would your choice be: (1) Disallow the communion with Rome?; (2) Disallow them from being priests?; (3) Have the priests annul their marriages first?; or, (4) Only allow the single ones to become priests?
COOL
He had a great comment when he met with the Pope. It was something to the effect that "The Anglican Communion is proof that people with differences can remain together."
In my RICA group was a married Methodist minister.
The Catholic Church has always accepted married priest under the Pope. It is Roman Rite priests who are barred from marriage after accepting priestly vows. Various other Catholic Rites do not bar ordained priests from marriage. Clergy from closely aligned denominations are permitted to join the Catholic Church as a married priest through special formation.
And yet the Roman Catholic Church in this country is the biggest private sponsor of Somali Mohammedan “refugees” and supporter of their demands for the implementation of Sharia law in such areas as finance and schooling.
“Scotty!! What’s left?”
“Various other Catholic Rites do not bar ordained priests from marriage.”
ALL “Catholic Rites” bar ordained priests from marriage; every last one of them.
Step one ... was this recent?
eastern rite Catholics who are married can become priests.
Roman Catholics who are married can only become deacons.
Roman Catholics will accept eastern rite priest who are converting. Hence married Roman Catholic priests.
Friend, visit the Vatican website.
1n 1990`s a Catholic parish east of San Francisco had a married Episcopalian priest as its pastor- so it is nothing new
The stinking liberal American Catholic Church sickens me. Somalis are the worst thing you could import into your country.
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