Essay: Before tackling troublesome issues, Pope Francis insists on synodality
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says – in an article first published on Religion News Service – that he feels like he is on the Titanic while the crew is meeting to talk about how they should listen to one another…
Senior Vatican official makes case for a married priesthood
Vatican CityReuters The Roman Catholic Church should “seriously think” about allowing priests to marry, a senior Vatican official and advisor to Pope Francis said in an interview published on Sunday. “This is probably the first time I’m saying it publicly and it will sound heretical to some people,” Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who is […]
ESSAY: POPE FRANCIS PUNTS ON MARRIED PRIESTS
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks the Pope’s response to the Amazon synod’s recommendations issued this week…
As Amazon synod closes, bishops ask the Pope to allow married priests
Vatican CityRNS Bishops voted on the final document of their Vatican summit on the Pan-Amazonian region on Saturday, taking preliminary steps forward toward the ordination of married men to the priesthood, the female diaconate and the creation of an Amazonian Rite. The bishops approved with a two thirds majority all the 140 paragraphs in the […]
Working groups at the Vatican’s Amazon synod push for married clergy
Vatican CityRNS As the 185 Catholic bishops who met to discuss the Amazon region broke into small working groups for the second week of the synod, the topics they would tackle included dwindling vocations, the role of women and married men in the church and the rights of Indigenous peoples. But if the small-group participants […]
Two-thirds of Amazon Catholic bishops support married priests, says Brazil bishop
Vatican CityRNS According to one Brazil bishop attending the Vatican summit on the Amazon region, a majority of Brazilian bishops are in favor of allowing the ordination of married men to the priesthood. “Of the bishops who are in the Amazon region, I guess two-thirds are in favour of the viri probati,” said Emeritus Bishop Erwin […]
In historic shift, Vatican to consider married priests for Amazon region
Vatican CityReuters A Vatican document on Monday said the church should consider ordaining older married men as priests in remote areas of the Amazon, a historic shift which some say could pave the way for their use in other areas where clergy are scarce. The recommendation, contained in a working document prepared by the Vatican […]