Posted on 02/08/2016 9:48:47 AM PST by marshmallow
(Vatican Radio) The Secretary of State of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, delivered the keynote address on Saturday morning at a conference being hosted by the Pontifical Gregorian University on the past, present, and future of the discipline of priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church.
In his prepared remarks, the Cardinal Secretary of State recalled that the requirement of celibacy is a disciplinary one that has never been imposed by the whole Church, and one from which men have more or less frequently been dispensed.
Cardinal Parolin addressed the opinion that it is time to lift the discipline in the Latin Church, where it is mandatory for all priests, and not just bishops and religious. "If the problematic [situation of a so-called 'vocations crisis'] does not appear irrelevant," he said, "it is nevertheless necessary not to take rushed decisions, or decisions based solely on the basis of present need."
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Ping for the coming fun.
Doublespeak.
Looks like the spokesman for the Pope is doing a wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.
Coming from the Pope, I presume. Trial balloon perhaps.
You sign up to be a priest or bishop, then low and behold they pop that celibacy rule on you! Wow! Whete did that come from? How about a little warning first?!
I want to be a cop, but I reserve the right to steal. I have needs as old as the bible!
Why not void the Papacy itself, as it too seems less and less relevant by the day?
I see what you mean, but perhaps it’s Bergoglio who’s irrelevant, not the papacy. He’s a goof.
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