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What Does Vatican Plan Mean For Celibate Priests?

Bexley : OH : USA | about 1 month ago  
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  • Cardinal Levada talks during a news conference at the Vatican
    Cardinal Levada talks during a news conference at the Vatican
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  • Pope Benedict XVI held talks with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in 2008
    Pope Benedict XVI held talks with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan ...
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Cardinal Levada talks during a news conference at the Vatican
The Vatican is welcoming Anglicans to return to Catholicism centuries after their ancestors left. The Vatican said it will permit married Anglican priests to become ordained Catholic priests. John Allen, senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter , talks with Steve Inskeep...
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  • News Source: National Public Radio | about 1 month ago
    The Vatican is welcoming Anglicans to return to Catholicism centuries after their ancestors left. The Vatican said it will permit married Anglican priests to become ordained Catholic priests. John Allen, senior correspondent for the National Catholic...
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    Eastern Rite Churches, which are in communion with the pope, ordain married men as priests. Still, relaxing rules on priestly celibacy for a group as large as the Anglican Communion is more dramatic, said Eduardo Baura, a professor of ...
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    ... will recognize the Anglican liturgy—possibly opening the doors to other liturgical adventures—and that an uptick in married Anglican priests who become Catholic will raise new questions about the need for the celibate priesthood. He writes: **
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