The Catholic Church should revise its celibacy requirement for Latin-rite priests, a senior official in the Vatican's doctrinal office said.
"If it were up to me, I would revise the requirement that priest(s) have to be celibate," said Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta,
Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the recently retired prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Bishops, has launched an international movement to revitalize the collaboration between ministerial priests and the priesthood of the faithful. He has organized a gathering for American theologians, priests, seminarians
A private, lay-led effort to root out clergy sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church by exposing their use of dating apps has raised concerns such methods may actually make it more difficult for the church to help clergy struggling with chaste celibacy
Recent comments by Pope Francis about the priesthood and celibacy have taken the media by storm, with one bad and misleading headline after the other. The world can’t resist talking about the priesthood. That oscillating fascination and opposition may very well be
While the Second Vatican Council gave the Catholic Church a "beautiful" document on the priesthood, "it did not face the fundamental question" of the difference between Catholic and Protestant understandings of ordained ministry, wrote Pope Benedict XVI in an essay published after
The requirement that most priests in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church be celibate has theological and spiritual foundations and not only practical motivations, said speakers at an international conference on priesthood.
Jesus' chastity, poverty and obedience were not "incidental or simply
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Michael R. Heinlein, editor of OSV’s website Simply Catholic, writes that the question of loosening the discipline of priestly celibacy should be made with full consultation of the bishops of the Church, and it is a conversation that Pope Francis should welcome
I know it. I feel it. The Holy Spirit heard my prayer. Already heartsick after reading the Grand Jury’s report from Pennsylvania on the horrific record of sexual abuse of youth by clergy, within an hour I received telephone calls from two