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by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Clericalism, lead, News, priesthood, Priestly celibacy, Vatican, viri probati, Women Deacons | 0 |
A top Vatican official charged with organizing a major symposium on the priesthood next year has said the discussion will touch on several controversial hot-button issues such as priestly celibacy, the women’s diaconate, clericalism, and the clerical sexual abuse crisis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Catholic news, celibacy, Congregation for Bishops, News, News Briefs, priesthood, Theology, viri probati, Women in the Church | 0 |
Vatican City, Apr 12, 2021 / 07:00 am America/Denver (CNA). Cardinal Marc Ouellet announced Monday that the Vatican will host a theological symposium on the priesthood that will touch on questions raised in recent synods, […]
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 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 3, 2020 | Amazon, Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Interviews, lead, News, Synod of Bishops, viri probati | 0 |
Despite the fact that an estimated 5 percent of the Australian population is of aboriginal descent, in the two centuries the Catholic Church has been present on the continent, there have been few indigenous vocations to the priesthood. According to Sydney’s archbishop, this presents some similarities with the realities of the Amazon region.
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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 1, 2020 | Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Australia, busfires, Interviews, lead, Married priests, News, viri probati | 0 |
Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney spoke to Crux about the CDF, synods, and the ongoing bush fires in Australia.
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