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2019-10-01 Olde Tyme Religion
Pope Could Soon Say ‘I Do’ to Married Priests--and Open a Schism
Another Crisis in the Church®.Really. Protestant ministers routinely marry. Rabbis routinely marry. Orthodox priests routinely marry. Mormon ministers marry. Catholic priests were allowed to marry up until the 11th century. Given the scandals of the past forty years or so, I'd call clerical marriage a good thing.
[THEDAILYBEAST] In October 2017, when Pope Francis announced a Vatican synod on the Amazon region “to identify new paths for the evangelization of God’s people in that region,” few people beyond those who had to attend marked it on their calendars. But over the course of the last two years, as the church prepared for the synod, which will run from Oct. 6 to 27 in Rome, it’s become clear there may be no more important meeting in Francis’ entire papacy.

One item among the 146 topics on the agenda listed in the 45-page working document has eclipsed all others–including the pope’s focus on climate change and poverty. That is whether or not to allow married “viri probati”–men of proven virtue–to be ordained as priests for the purpose of delivering the big sacraments: baptism, confession, weddings and funerals, in far flung areas where no priests are present.

Bishop Rafael Cob, apostolic vicar of Puyo, Ecuador, who will be attending the synod in Rome, said that the Church must “respond to a concrete challenge in a concrete reality.”

“The Amazon is a geographically difficult region to evangelize, first because of its distance, its inaccessibility,” he told reporters at a press conference in Rome. “But there also is a lack of candidates who can or want to be priests with the issue of celibacy. So, logically, the Church is looking for new methods to respond to concrete challenges.”
Posted by Fred 2019-10-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 How much you wanna bet he gets removed if he tries it?
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-10-01 00:48||   2019-10-01 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Marrying one another, a 'backdoor fix' for decades of scandal. Window three is still open. All betting closes in 2 minutes.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-01 02:10||   2019-10-01 02:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Terms absent from both Beast story and linked Pan-Amazon Synod doc: gay, homosexual, same-sex, adoption.
Posted by Thealing Ulinter8740 2019-10-01 02:55||   2019-10-01 02:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Ref #3: Thanks for highlighting.... critical elements not mentioned.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-01 02:57||   2019-10-01 02:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Then again, I didn't check Latin. ;-)
Posted by Thealing Ulinter8740 2019-10-01 03:07||   2019-10-01 03:07|| Front Page Top

#6 The early church allowed married priests. A thousand years ago, when the church amassed so much wealth was marriage forbidden so the church's wealth could not be handed down to the clergy's descendants.

Don't think that will be a problem anymore. Less relative wealth, more transparent accountability and information travels too fast to hide it.
Posted by Grutch Cheting3238 2019-10-01 04:34||   2019-10-01 04:34|| Front Page Top

#7 This is not a scandal, more just a long time coming. What other faith demands celibacy from their preachers? I'm actually not aware of any. Maybe the Buddhists, just because they renounce everything fun and interesting about life?

He should do this, and soon. And then start fixing the Church's stubborn and evil insistence on saving child rapists from the public eye and much deserved imprisonment (unfortunately nobody seems to be executing these people even when they are convicted).
Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-10-01 08:51||   2019-10-01 08:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Still, it would increase the 'Housing Allowance', and salaries, for some already cash-strapped congregations.

Right now their salary is maxed out at about $45K, plus vehicle and housing, around here.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-10-01 10:14||   2019-10-01 10:14|| Front Page Top

#9 
#7
I'm not real up on the intricacies of Buddhism, but...

  • I haven't heard of Buddhist "priests." Shinto, yes, Buddhist, no.

  • Recalling ancient conversations with Lesser Vehicle monks in Thailand, most men who become monks do it for a year to five years, not for life. I don't even think Abbots stay forever, unless they retire into a monestary.

  • It gives them time to concentrate on the Whichness of Why, or the Whatever of the Human Navel, and it teaches them some humility.

  • No idea if the same applies to Greater Vehicle Buddhists, and I'm even less informed on oddballs like Tantrists.

Posted by Fred 2019-10-01 11:59||   2019-10-01 11:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Greater Vehicle Buddhists

?
= Buddhists who drive Escalades?
Posted by Lex 2019-10-01 15:52||   2019-10-01 15:52|| Front Page Top

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