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![]() ![]() An 'amnesty' for those who "left the priesthood to get married" ought never to be on the cards. Here, again, the consensus of East and West and of the millennia would be strongly against it. It most certainly is not the idea of allowing priests to marry. ![]() If in the earliest centuries presbyters were required to be celibate, then we must remember that the Church develops her practice and her doctrine and that, therefore, the existence of a largely married presbyterate in the Oriental sui iuris Churches must be deemed to have developed non sine nutu Sancti Spiritus.Īnd the subject I am thinking about is the ordination of married men. That is why Bishops, in whom resides the plenitudo Sacerdotii, are everywhere celibate.īut the same does not apply with as much force to presbyters. The Universal Church, Eastern and Western, discerns a particularly close linkage between celibacy and sacerdotium. ![]()
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