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Married Priests?
Friday, January 5, 2007

At first glance this appears to be a bigger deal than it is: A meeting at the Vatican to discuss the readmission of married priests. The news is from a meeting in Nov., 2006 that Catholic News re-ran this week as part of its most popular series from 2006:

A Vatican meeting presided over by Pope Benedict yesterday discussed the possible readmission of "priests who at present meet the conditions foreseen by the Church", while reaffirming "the value" of celibacy. A Vatican statement said "the value of the choice of celibacy according to Catholic tradition was reaffirmed as was the need for a solid human and Christian formation, be it for seminarians as well as priests who have already been ordained," Reuters reports.
The meeting had been called to debate a strategy to deal with the schism threatened by controversial Zambian Archbishop Emanuel Milingo's plan to create a personal prelature for married priests following his recent ordination of four married men in Washington DC.

At second glance it may be downright odd: "Milingo, a charismatic faith healer and exorcist, is not just a keen proponent of marriage, but tried it himself in 2001 at a mass ceremony held by the Rev Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church."

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