Pope Francis recently suggested that the Catholic Church is now open to reconsidering its 1,000-year-old celibacy rules.
The act of celibacy was put into effect in the 11th century as a way to ensure the clergy’s money would stay within the church, instead of with their family, according to the Daily Mail.
The Vatican apparently enforces the rule among priests, but there has been growing pushback against the ban.
Germany’s Catholic Church voted for a resolution asking Francis to end the obligation for priests to remain celibate, according to the report.
Francis noted that the ban was only “temporary,” and that there was no contradiction for a priest to take a wife.
The news came in a recent interview with Infobae, an Argentine publication.
Francis said: “There is no contradiction for a priest to marry. Celibacy in the Western Church is a temporary prescription.”
“It is not eternal like priestly ordination, which is for ever whether you like it or not. On the other hand, celibacy is a discipline.”
However, Francis’ current view on celibacy seems to have changed from what he thought in 2019, when he suggested that married men were to be barred from serving as a priest.
Some within the faith have suggested that making the celibacy rule more lax could shore up the shortage of clerics.
Francis cited the Eastern Church, a branch of Catholicism that is more lenient with marriage, stating: “Everyone in the Eastern Church is married, or those who want to. Before ordination there is the choice to marry or to be celibate.”
To celebrate his tenth anniversary as Pope, Francis has given several interviews, where he has cited the rising divorce rates and the potential that young people are getting married too early.
He said: “Sometimes one goes to a wedding and it seems more like it’s a social reception and not a sacrament.”
“When young people say for ever, who knows what they mean by for ever,” he said.
The question of celibacy comes amid reports of sexual debauchery within the American church.
A conservative Catholic group reportedly tracked various priests without their knowledge, revealing that some of them were using gay dating and hookup apps.
While some believe that tracking these priests was justified to root out the debaucherous behavior, there are those who feel that surveillance of any kind is a violation of private life.
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Let’s hope this liberal Pope actually understqnds the biblical meaning of marriage of one man,one woman. Could just be a door opener to woke Christianity by a leader who seems not to understand the definition of abortion promotion being a basic communion killer until the acts of godly rebellion cease to exist.
Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, let us settle the matter,”
says the LORD.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.”
Unless your secular South American social indoctrination is like a Snowflake and you continue to use your woke issued graduation sheepskins to cover your intellectual nakedness and continue to let the pleasure seekers pull the wool over your eyes, like woke Popes who push social equity over Godly excellence. Unfortunately, God is neither a Democracy, nor a social collective of fallen rebellious Alinsky Angels who seek to play God with other people’s lives, totally ignoring the blaring failures in their own. Eleven of the 12 Apostles had wives so what is the big deal.
Catholicism is dead. Christianity is dying. We are all becoming godless authoritarian fools to carry on the secular war on the populace in the name of our betters like Joe and Jill. Well, why not? That’s no more ridiculous that “I don’t know what a woman is” and “Transwomen can get cervical cancer.” Grow up you idiots. This insanity will end when all the idiots pushing this gender insanity and fighting for children’s right to harm themselves will get sued into oblivion. That’s when all of this will begin to approach normalcy again. And not because the government intervened. It will be because they can no longer get malpractice insurance for those procedures. That being said, the Catholic church is on its last legs because it sold out its own core beliefs and values. The Christian church is next. Once the Christian church is battered into submission, Islam will no longer be able to hide its violent predilections. Once the mainstream Muslims realize that they will attempt to moderate. The resulting conflagration will horrify the world and the secular will rise up and destroy the Islamic religion. Finally, secularism will discover exactly what religions brought to the world, Morality. This will lead us back to tribalism (where the Middle East is today) enforced by geography. And the cycle begins anew.