Source: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2014/06/about-that-nytimes-hint-at-the-future-of-married-priests/ (9 Nov. 2019)
Excerpt:
During a news conference last month, the pope said: “The Catholic Church has married priests, no? Greek Catholics, Coptic Catholics, no? They exist. In the Eastern Rites, there are married priests.” He called priestly celibacy “a rule of life which I highly esteem and I believe is a gift for the church,” but added, “Since it is not a dogma of faith, the door is always open.”
I also wondered why the report lacked the perspective of Eastern Orthodox sources or, for that matter, Eastern Rite Catholic sources.
This is a good report. In a way, I want to stress that it is a more important topic — for traditional, small-o orthodox Catholics — than the editors realized.
Keep digging.
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