Pope Francis has now suggested that the practice is an individual “discipline” rather than a “contradiction” to the church.
Pope Francis hinted that he may review the Catholic Church’s celibacy requirement for priests.Most recently, Germany’s Catholic Church voted to formally send a request to the Pope to end the requirement, and it appears as though Francis might agree.
He said of one such priest: “We have one in the curia [papal court] — I ran into him today — who has a wife and a son. There is no contradiction in a priest being married.”Vatican Mediai/IPA via ZUMA Press
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