Opinion: Did Pope Francis acquiesce to conservatives on married priests? Sure looks like it (via latimesopinion)
The Vatican’s acceptance of married priests in Eastern-rite churches has been grudging at times. In the early 20th century, it prohibited those churches from ordaining married men in North America, South America and Australia, a concession to Roman Catholic bishops in those places who were worried that their faithful would be scandalized by the presence of married Catholic priests in their midst.
That’s because excerpts from Benedict’s contribution to the book suggest that the retired pope sees an absolute incompatibility between priesthood and the married life. Benedict : “From the daily celebration of the Eucharist, which implies a permanent state of service to God, was born spontaneously the impossibility of a marital bond.”To say that it’s impossible for priests to be married seems to elevate the ban on celibacy to the status of doctrine, calling into question the legitimacy of the vocations of married clergy who already minister in the Catholic Church. On Thursday thecharmingly profiled one such priest, a cleric in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
Especially in light of Benedict’s intervention, Francis’ refusal to relax the celibacy rule for the Amazon also sends a discouraging signal to the Eastern churches not in communion with the pope — that reunion with Rome could render their married priests second-class clergy. I’m sure the pope didn’t intend to demean the ministry of married priests — Catholic and non-Catholic — with this decision. But it could have that effect.
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