"Solution" in Canons 1042 & 1047: "Step By Step" Toward More Married Priests

Source: http://magister.blogautore.espresso.repubblica.it/2020/05/15/step-by-step-toward-married-priests-an-update/ (16 May 2020)

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 The “third step” comes once the “plan” has been developed and consists in “presenting the request to the Holy See.”

And will the Holy See accept it? “Of course the Holy See could do so,” De Almeida replies. “In the Amazonian context and considering the synodal process set in motion after the announcement of the special synod for the Amazon, I have no doubt.”

But how will the ordination of married men be authorized? De Almeida says that “for now the solution is in the code of canon law,” which in canons 1042 and 1047 admits that in special cases the Holy See can exempt candidates for the priesthood from the “impediment” of marriage, “taking into account ‘the good of the faithful,’ the presence of a ‘just and reasonable cause’ (access of the faithful to the celebration of the Eucharist) and ‘the circumstances of the case’ (in the Amazon, the almost complete absence of celibate clergy).”