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  • Priestly Celibacy: Apostolic Tradition, not a ‘Mere Discipline’

    07/25/2019 1:43:44 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 116 replies
    Catholicism.org ^ | July 24, 2019 | Brother André Marie
    Priestly Celibacy: Apostolic Tradition, not a ‘Mere Discipline’ There are numerous indicators that the October 6-27 Synod on the Amazon will have as one of its effects the dismantling or mitigating of the Latin Church’s ancient discipline of priestly celibacy. At least that is what is being claimed in numerous quarters. Proposed as an ad hoc remedy to the pastoral situation in the Amazon — so the thinking goes — the camel’s nose of a married priesthood will securely place itself under the tent and eventually undo the bi-millennial tradition of priestly celibacy in the Church.Exceptions, whatever their reasons, have...