SV: {UAH} Pope Francis requests Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married

Okello DOKOLO,

Ocaya pOcure is not going back to try again to be a Catholic Church Priest. Truly, Catholic Church had been the very political opium that birthed the apartheid regime in the Southern African region!

Okello DOKOLO, do not remind me of the reason why I found an orphan in the Catholic Church's care home when my lovely mother died when I was still a baby. I truly did not join the Catholic Church on my own accord but the deplorable death of my mother way back in mid-1947! Give me a break!

 

Ocaya pOcure

 

Den torsdag, 2 november 2017 19:38 skrev Bobby Alcantara <bobbyalcantara94@gmail.com>:

Gwokto/ Mike Ocaya p'Ocure,

Now you can go back to the monastery, wear your frocks and climb the pulpits - if Pope Francis gets his way against the octogenarians who rule the roost in the catholic fraternity, Except, he probably will allow only monogamous arrangements with only one wife and one husband allowed, which might put the two of you in a pickle.

Bobby

Pope Francis requests Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married

Matilda Long

Yahoo News UK 2 November 2017

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Pope Francis celebrates a Mass. (Reuters/Remo Casilli)

Pope Francis has requested that Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married.

The request applies to priests in Brazil, and is on the agenda for an upcoming synod (church council) in the Amazon region.

The controversial move would address the critical shortage of men joining the priesthood – but is likely to drive divisions through the church by enraging conservative factions.

A small number of married Roman Catholic priests already exist, including previously married Anglican vicars who have joined the church.

A request to lift the ban on marriage was made by Brazilian bishop Cardinal Claudio Hummes, who reportedly asked the Pope to consider 'viri probati', meaning married of great faith, as priests.

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Derry priest Father Paddy O'Kane suggested that Pope Francis may move to end celibacy earlier this month, saying there was support amongst the church for the idea.

Fr O'Kane cited Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff, who said: "The Brazilian bishops, especially the pope's own personal friend Cardinal Claudio Hummes, have expressly requested Pope Francis to enable married priest in Brazil to return to pastoral ministry.

"I have recently heard that the pope wants to fulfil this request – as an experimental, preliminary phase for the moment confined to Brazil."

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St Peters Square in Rome (Niall Carson/PA Wire)

Earlier this year the Pope told Die Zeit newspaper: 'We must consider if 'viri probati' is a possibility. Then we must determine what tasks they can perform, for example, in remote communities.'

Francis and his predecessor Benedict XVI have both stated that celibacy is not a matter of inflexible church dogma unlike, and could be debated.

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