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"Or the pope could authorize the ordination of the kind of mature married men now sometimes chosen as deacons. These seasoned men could be ordained as priests, but restricted in their functions to offering the eucharist when celibate priests are not available. Such a policy would be a limited Western adaptation of Eastern Rite practice."
David C. Steinmetz is the Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity at Duke University's Divinity School
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