I know that you like to repeat this but it is just not true. Clerical celibacy in the West goes back to Apostolic times.
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Posted on 03/12/2015 12:31:53 PM PDT by Legatus
A childhood friend of Pope Francis has claimed that he intends to overturn the centuries-old ban on Catholic priests from getting married and that he told a divorcee 'living in sin' that she could receive Holy Communion.
The Pope considers the law on priestly celibacy 'archaic' and 'not part of the doctrine of the Church', according to the confidante.
The friend also claimed the Argentinian-born pope also vowed to reform another Catholic rule which bars divorced people in new relationships from taking the Holy Communion, MailOnline can reveal.
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...be careful what you wish for!
Wow! Moving in line with Scripture!
How can you complain?
won’t happen.
Good. It isn’t in the least bit necessary anymore.
Compulsory clerical celibacy was institutionalized in the Middle Ages. Implemented primarily to confront rampant corruption in the Church, specifically nepotism and simony.
There is absolutely nothing in the Bible requiring such a draconian policy. In point of fact, priests were married men in the Bible from Aaron on down.
The Pope has correctly stated that clerical celibacy is a discipline, not a dogma or a doctrine of the Church and therefore subject to change.
So, a British tabloid reveals that “a friend says”. THAT’S an authoritative source. Or not.
While this is inside baseball, lets just say the spin machine will have to work overtime IF this actually happens.
I thought that the pope’s decisions were infallible on doctrinal issues. Therefore, by reversing the church’s position regarding priests marriage, he is saying that the previous popes were all wrong when they required priests to be single.
They can all drop dead if they mention same sex marriage
Nope; it’s not a doctrine or dogma that can’t change, it’s a discipline (an internal, transitory rule) which has changed back and forth over the centuries according to the needs of the time. If the Pope saw fit to get rid of it he could.
Nope; it’s not a doctrine or dogma that can’t change, it’s a discipline (an internal, transitory rule) which has changed back and forth over the centuries according to the needs of the time. If the Pope saw fit to get rid of it he could.
Orthodox priests are allowed to marry. But if you want to be a bishop you must be celibate. That is why all Orthodox bishops come from the monks. For the CC a diocesan priests takes an oath to follow the church rules not an explicit vow of celibacy. On the other hand there are the religious orders that do make explicit vows of celibacy.
Matters of custom or discipline don't fall into that category. The argument that priests must be male is regarded as a matter of doctrine. That RC priests may not marry is a matter of discipline, was not always true, and may be changed.
Yeah.
Lots of those “priests” play for the other team. And I’m not talking about the Protestants!
A “childhood friend” is claiming this?
I think I’ll wait for a more reliable source before I start believing it.
I know that you like to repeat this but it is just not true. Clerical celibacy in the West goes back to Apostolic times.
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This Pope is the biggest mistake the Church has ever made.
I’ve already tried to use that book as a source here, it got no traction whatsoever.
“and told divorced woman ‘living in sin’ that she COULD receive Holy Communion” is the rest of the headline, it was too long for freeping
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