Posted on www.Facebook.com/marriedpriests on 11 March 2024:
Names of 4 married Roman Catholic priests (ordained with papal permission of Pope Pius XII to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass AND "none of these priests was forced to relinquish marital relations with his spouse"):
1) Fr. Rudolf Goethe (1951)
2) Fr. Eugen Scheytt (1952)
3) Fr. Otto Melchers (1952)
[Cf. Rudolf Goethe, "Die Offene Tur," pp. 117-165, in 'Bekenntnis zur Katholishe Kirche' (Wurzburt, 1955) as cited in Joseph H. Fichter "Wives of Catholic Clergy," p. 97 (Kansas City: Sheedy & Ward, 1992).]
Posted on www.x.com/marriedpriests on 22 June 2024:
The Latin-Rite Church of the 20th & 21st Centuries authorized the return of married priests, beginning with Pope Pius XII who gave permission for married Roman Catholic priests to serve in active ministry.
It ain't just a Vatican II thing, folks.
Pius XII departed from the absolute rule for mandated celibacy that started with Lateran I & II (12th Century).
Posted on www.Facebook.com/marriedpriests on 3 March 2024:
Pope Pius XII was the first modern Pope to admit married men *back* to the Latin rite priesthood when, in 1952, His Holiness allowed a married former Protestant Lutheran minister to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest with the full rights of marriage which means that Pius XII did not expect continence of the new married priest. There were 4 married priests who followed that in Germany also dispensed by the Pope. This started BEFORE Vatican II. So there is precedence for pre-Vatican II married priests who celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass. Many traditional Catholics are open to married men in the Latin rite priesthood, so it's not just a liberal thing.
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