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Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta
Well, I actually agree with this, but not for the reasons the Vatican is promoting it.
The Vatican is promoting it just because they’re attacking everything in the Church.
But yeah, the mandatory celibacy thing is ridiculous. A lot of priests are going to choose to be celibate regardless, but there is no reason they should be forced. It’s not the Middle Ages, and we have the ability to prevent the problem of priests leaving estates to their children.
The Roman Catholic Church should “seriously think” about allowing priests to marry, a senior Vatican official and advisor to Pope Francis said in an interview published on Sunday.
“This is probably the first time I’m saying it publicly and it will sound heretical to some people,” Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who is also adjunct secretary in the Vatican’s doctrinal office, told the Times of Malta.
Pope Francis in 2019 ruled out any chance that he would change the Roman Catholic rule requiring priests to be celibate. But it is not a formal doctrine of the Church and so it could be changed by a future pope.
In an interview with a Latin American news outlet in 2023, Francis spoke about the celibacy rule again, saying that “it is not eternal, like priestly ordination”, but a “discipline” that could be revised.
Scicluna, perhaps best known for his investigations of sexual abuse crimes, noted that priests were allowed to marry in the first millennium of the Church’s history and that marriage is allowed today in the Eastern rite of the Catholic Church.
“If it were up to me, I would revise the requirement that priests have to be celibate,” he said. “Experience has shown me that this is something we need to seriously think about.”
Scicluna, 64, said the Church had “lost many great priests because they chose marriage”.
I have a tendency to simply disagree with the Vatican about everything on principle, but they have lost many great priests due to this archaic and pointless rule, which is explicitly condemned by Saint Paul.
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Say what you want about the Russian Orthodox Church, but I’ve never seen a ROCOR priest hang a “pride” flag in the church, wear a rainbow stole, or bless a same-sex couple. pic.twitter.com/MGHOH8vBBp
— Joseph Sciambra ☦ (@JosephSciambra) January 2, 2024
