"Look at the Eastern Church[es] Model": Synod Priest Msgr. Carlo Verzeletti of Brazil

Source: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/10/14/synods-second-week-opens-with-continued-focus-on-married-priests-ecology-inculturation/ (10/15/2019)


Excerpt:

In the synod I support and continue to support the importance of being able to ordain married men for the priesthood, so the Eucharist may become a reality that is closer to people and communities, so that these married men can, in fact, accompany the lives of the peoples, the lives of their communities.

Msgr. Verzeletti has served in the Amazonian region for twenty years. Despite the work of heroic early missionaries, Verzeletti believes the region as suffered from “400 years of colonization” and continues to be oppressed by globalization. He told journalists, “I asked in the session that the pope look with affection on this idea, ordained married men. Look at the Eastern Church model.”