Pope presides over priest celibacy talks

[FernBell]

Pope Benedict XVI presided at a summit Thursday on the celibacy requirement for clergy, spurred by a married African archbishop who has been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.

The Vatican insists that the policy itself was not open for discussion, but that the meeting was called to examine the implications of the “disobedience” by Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo.

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Archbishop Milingo incurred automatic excommunication in September when he ordained four married American men as bishops in defiance of the Vatican.

He already had drawn the Vatican's ire in 2001, when he took a South Korean woman as his wife in a group wedding ceremony of the Unification Church of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

The prelate wants the church to drop the demand that clergy be celibate. He is hoping to draw some 1,000 married Catholic priests to a Dec. 8-10 gathering in the New York City area.


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[Ian David]

1. Molesting little boys gets you transfered. Ordaining married men gets you excommunicated.

In other words, the one sure way to be damned to Hell is to disobey Pope Ratso.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. They have a huge priest shortage

seems to me they could come up with a compromise...like married priests are regular, but celebate priests get to wear a cape and be SUPER PRIEST!