Celibacy
Belgian Bishop Challenges Pope Leo to Allow Married Priests by 2028
A Catholic bishop said he would push the Vatican for permission to ordain married men as priests by 2028, in an unusual statement that may test Pope Leo's willingness to ...
Fr. Heimerl: Priestly Celibacy is an Indispensable Gift to the Church
Church reformers have always challenged celibacy. This has not changed since Martin Luther’s time, and it is particularly true in the era of synodal aberration that the Church has embarked ...
Cardinal Kasper Claims Francis Wanted to ‘Change’ Priestly Celibacy, but Benedict XVI and Cardinal Sarah ‘Intervened’
Cardinal Walter Kasper said that Pope Francis wanted to “change” priestly celibacy, but Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah “successfully intervened” to stop it. In an interview with the ...
A Failed Attempt to Enforce Priestly Celibacy?
Back when ‘Diogenes’ was writing regularly for CatholicCulture, he made the point (in a private email, I’m sorry to say; not on this site) that when we say that an ...
Austrian Priest: Abolishing Priestly Celibacy Would Devastate The Church
An increasing number of voices in the pope’s circle are saying it: celibacy is to become a victim of the “Franciscan” Church reform. Yet celibacy, in particular, is an interesting ...
Belgian Bishops Reportedly Back Women Deacons, End to Priestly Celibacy
In the lead up to this year’s closing session of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality, the Belgian bishops have apparently opened a national discussion on allowing women deacons and ...
Vatican’s Former Sex Abuse Expert: Celibacy Is NOT the Cause of Sexual Abuse
Father Hans Zollner, a German priest and an expert in the fight against sexual abuse in the Church, said in a Sept. 26 interview with Infovaticana that celibacy is not ...
Married Priests? Here’s What The Early Church Taught About Priestly Celibacy
The concept of clerical celibacy is currently under attack, both from critics of the Church who seek to refute it as pointless and restrictive, but also from Pope Francis who ...
Pope Francis Hints At Ending Thousand-Year-Old Priest Celibacy Rule Calling Ban ‘Temporary’
Pope Francis has suggested that the Catholic Church could greenlight a review of its 1,000-year-old celibacy tradition. In a wide-ranging interview the Pope said the union of a priest and ...
Indigenous Priest Says Celibacy Does Not Cause Priest Shortages in Amazon
Father Justino Sarmento Rezende, one of the few indigenous priests participating in this month’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, has weighed in on the issue of celibacy, saying it ...
Cardinal Marx Announces Binding ‘Synodal Process’ on Celibacy, Sexual Morality
The German bishops will discuss priestly celibacy and sexual morality, leading to an as yet undetermined 'binding' outcome Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising has announced that the Catholic ...
The Times, The Abuse Crisis and The War Against Celibacy
The New York Times has spent this past week in a less than subtle attack on clerical celibacy, insinuating it as the cause of the current crisis in the Church ...