Posted on 04/23/2007 5:57:10 PM PDT by Claud
Deacon Eric Bergman will become one of the rarest of Roman Catholic priests today — a married one.
The former rector of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church will be ordained for the second time at St. Clare’s Roman Catholic Church today, nearly 10 years after his ordination in the Church of England.
After he takes his vows, he will be the first married priest in the history of the Diocese of Scranton, joining the 100 or so other married Roman Catholic priests in the United States.
The St. Thomas More Society, of which Deacon Bergman has been serving as executive director, was formed about the same time as the confirmations by Bishop Martino for those who left the Episcopal Church with the Bergmans.
The society is an Anglican Use group. Anglican Use refers to the liturgy used by the group and is similar to the services at Episcopal churches, approved by both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.
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The Bergmans and the society members hope that after his ordination, Deacon Bergman will eventually be given his own Anglican Use parish.
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Not the married one. However, if his wife dies, he would not be permitted to remarry.
No, he doesn’t.
“I would think he would have to maintain abstinence?”
How silly. Go tell that to his wife. Geez.....
Alexander, you know what I like about you? Well, I like a lot of things! But one of the biggies is, that when something puzzles you about somebody else’s religion, you ask an honest question.
Lots of people around here would just give it a hoot and a sneer, and let it go at that.
But an honest question, like yours, makes it possible for decent, intelligent, respectful discussion to occur.
Refreshing! What a concept! Thanks, and a tip o’ the hat to you.
Welcome home as a priest, Father Bergman!
The Anglican priests that convert to Catholicism are grand-fathered in after taking the Catholic theology course. Nothing unusual here, given the status of the situation.
I believe our diocese has two such priests, both married.
If their wife should die, they may not remarry.
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