Re:Catholic priest quits after “anonymized” data revealed al...
by madars on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:05PM
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Practicing Catholic here. To add a reference about vows of celibacy: the minor (but notable!) exception are priests in Anglican Ordinariate who were validly married before their Catholic ordination. https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu... this is a temporary exception, though, and does not signify any change in the Church's discipline of clerical celibacy.
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Re:Catholic priest quits after “anonymized” data revealed al...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:56PM
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> the minor (but notable!) exception are priests in Anglican Ordinariate who were validly married before their Catholic ordination.
The major exception is the priesthood of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches; priestly celibacy is a discipline of the Latin Rite, not a universal discipline or doctrine of the Catholic Church.
> this is a temporary exception, though, and does not signify any change in the Church's discipline of clerical celibacy.
Sure, the most recent change was the reestablishment of the permanent diaconate within the Latin Rite, since before that the diaconate (and, before it was suppressed, also the subdiaconate) were within the scope of clerical celibacy.