German bishop says he’s skeptical about exempting priests from celibacy
A German bishop who co-chairs the Synodal Path’s forum on priests said he is “skeptical” about exempting Catholic priests from celibacy.
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by bcadmin | Aug 26, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, female ordination, German bishops, Germany, News, women priests | 0 |
A German bishop who co-chairs the Synodal Path’s forum on priests said he is “skeptical” about exempting Catholic priests from celibacy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 25, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Lutheran Church, News, Sweden, women priests | 0 |
The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time, according to numbers released this month, a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, female deacons, News, Weekly Headlines, women priests | 0 |
In order for women to embrace our proper role in sanctifying the priesthood, we must be willing to abandon the adversarial position we often place ourselves in with men. Great damage has been done in the dynamic between men and women, thanks to radical forms of feminism that seek to pit men and women against […]
by bcadmin | Mar 5, 2020 | 2020 election, Bishop Georg Bätzing, California, celibacy, Germany, lead, News, News Analysis, synodality, women priests | 0 |
Germany has become to Church politics what California is on the American scene, meaning a strongly blue state which tends to favor the most progressive choice on any menu.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 31, 2020 | Church, Episcopal Church, Featured, News, ordination, priesthood, Real Presence, Weekly Headlines, women priests | 0 |
In mid-January, it was made public that His Excellency Bishop Barry Knestout (my local ordinary) had made arrangements with the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia to allow an invalid consecration of a female “bishop” at St. Bede’s Catholic Church in Williamsburg. The public outcry was so intense that the Episcopalians chose to move the event […]
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