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Could the benefits of married Catholic clergy outweigh the costs?

January 23, 2024

Once in a while the spectre – as it is often made out to be – of allowing married priests to be ordained into the Catholic Church rears its head. We seem to be at one of those juntures again, with the Archbishop of Malta having suggested recently that it is time to end celibacy

Call for married Catholic priests will find an audience, says former Irish president

January 16, 2024

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Mary McAleese, the former president of the Republic of Ireland, has backed calls for the Catholic Church to end priestly celibacy. Similar comments were recently made by an archbishop close to Pope Francis. McAleese, currently chancellor of Trinity University, spoke to The Irish News after Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who also serves

Morning Catholic must-reads: 25/04/18

April 25, 2018

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Ordain married men to serve isolated parishes, cardinal suggests

January 23, 2018

Cardinal Beniamino Stella, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, suggested the idea in a new book

Morning Catholic must-reads: 23/01/18

January 23, 2018

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Morning Catholic must-reads: 17/11/17

November 17, 2017

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The unlikely champions of married priests

November 16, 2017

It might baffle Catholics elsewhere, but in England many supporters of clerical marriage are conservative

Morning Catholic must-reads: 16/11/17

November 16, 2017

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