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by bcadmin | Jul 24, 2020 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Emmanuel Milingo, excommunication, Kenya, Married priests, News | 0 |
Emmanuel Milingo, the former Catholic archbishop excommunicated in 2006, has appointed an African to succeed him as head of the International Married Priest Prelature of St. Peter and Paul.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 12, 2020 | American Catholics, Gallup, Global church, Latin America, lead, Married priests, News, News Analysis, Poll | 0 |
If I were Pope for a day, I’d commission one of the most reliable polling institutes in the world to conduct regular surveys of the global Catholic population on all the issues of importance in Catholic life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 20, 2020 | ad limina, Eastern Catholic, Married priesthood, Married priests, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Pope Francis “is a father who knows very well his daughters and sons,” including those who belong to the Eastern Catholic churches, said the Armenian Catholic bishop of the United States and Canada.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2020 | ad limina, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Eastern Catholic Churches, Married priests, News, US bishops, Vatican | 0 |
In the United States, there are 17 eparchies — dioceses — that belong to one of nine Eastern Catholic churches: the Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Maronite, Chaldean, Melkite, Syriac, Syro-Malabar, Armenian and Romanian Catholic Churches. Most on on their ad limina visit to Rome.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 16, 2020 | Evangelization, Interviews, lead, Married priests, News, Philippines, Santa Croce, viri probati | 0 |
As the debate on married priests ferments following the publication of a major papal document that was expected to address the issue, one married man who became a priest when his wife died has weighed in on the issue, saying he supports both celibacy, and viri probati.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 15, 2020 | Anglicanorum coetibus, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Dallas, Diocese of Dallas, Married priests, News, Pastoral Provision | 0 |
In a Catholic world where debates over clerical celibacy have flared from Brazil to the Vatican, Joshua Whitfield is that rarest of things: A married Catholic priest.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 13, 2020 | Amazon region, Germany, lead, Married priests, News, News Analysis, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Priestly celibacy, Synod of Bishops on the Amazon | 0 |
The absence of a clear result on married priests in Querida Amazonia doesn’t necessarily mean the debate is over.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2020 | Amazon synod, Cardinal Michael Czerny, lead, Married priests, News, Vatican, viri probati, Women Deacons | 0 |
Though Pope Francis’s highly anticipated document on the Amazon bypasses the hot-button issues of women deacons and the married priesthood, a number of the pope’s close advisers have said the door is not definitively closed.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2020 | Amazon region, Amazon synod, Ecology, Laudato Si, lead, Married priests, News, Pachamama, Pope Francis, Synod on the Amazon, Vatican, Women Deacons | 0 |
Pope Francis’s highly anticipated document on the Amazon, released on Wednesday, bypasses two hot-button issues looming over its publication.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 10, 2020 | 2020, A Watershed This Week?, Amazon synod, Archbishop George Ganswein, Bishop Sanchez Sorondo, Bjørn Lomborg, Cardinal Sarah/Benedict XVI book, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Catholic social teaching, Catholicism, celibacy, Columns, Diane Montagna, Greta Thunberg, Married priests, News, Pachamama, Pope Francis, post-synoldal exhortation, Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Robert Royal: A papal exhortation is due Wednesday and may deal with celibacy, deaconesses, and Church governance. Major repercussions are certain.
The post A Watershed This Week? appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 7, 2020 | Apostolic Exhortation, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Married priests, News, Pope Francis, Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis will release his eagerly-awaited document on the Amazon next Wednesday, with attention focused on whether he will approve calls by the region’s bishops to ordain married men to address a priest shortage there.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 2, 2020 | Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Married priests, News, Synod for the Amazon, viri probati | 0 |
Catholics who work in the Amazon say members of small, isolated villages believe the church could be more present in their lives if it allowed the ordination of married men — a plan being considered on a limited basis for the Amazon region.
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