His Grace Archbishop Malcolm Patrick McMahon, O.P.,
of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool, England
(Photo Source: English.OP.org)
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"It is a question of justice for those men who want to be priests and to have a wife. Marriage should not bar them from their vocation but they must be married before they are ordained. The justice issue also applies to communities which could be deprived of the Eucharist because there aren’t enough priests.”
Source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081211142205/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3406108/Catholic-Church-has-no-reason-to-stop-priests-from-marrying-says-leading-bishop.html
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"A senior Catholic bishop in England was quoted as saying Sunday that married men should be allowed to become Catholic priests."
""It is a question of justice for those men who want to be priests and to have a wife," Bishop of Nottingham Malcolm McMahon said in an interview published in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. "Marriage should not bar them from their vocation, but they must be married before they are ordained.""
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27630947
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Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_McMahon
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