Check it out!

[john.a]

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/sto...ns/0904673.htm

It sounds like some kind of "Anglican Rite" and they would be sort of like the Eastern Churches of the Catholic faith in being slightly autonomous with their own hierarchy. It's interesting that they're priests would also be allowed to be married (as in the Eastern Churches). Hopefully, it'll at least break the stereotype that people have: "Rome-forces-priests-to-not-marry=EVIL!!"

Thoughts, opinions?

[john.a]

Originally Posted by Beyond Ashes

My first reaction?

Sounds like the Catholic church is desperate to keep it's priesthood going is all it sounds like, so they need to outsource it It reeks of desperation.

And desperation isn't attractive

Actually, it was the Traditional Anglican Communion that petitioned Rome first for re-communion.

[Bix]

I talked to my priest about this. She's upset that they're leaving. We need all ideas in the Anglican church, liberal and conservative.

I do hope they find what they're looking for in the Catholic church, though.

Do you think this will be a move to allow all Catholic priests to marry?

[john.a]

Originally Posted by Bix

Do you think this will be a move to allow all Catholic priests to marry?

Priestly celibacy is a Tradition of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church (that is to say, the Roman Catholic Church). Priestly celibacy is NOT dogma and it is NOT doctrine. It's a practice. For example, in the non-Latin Rites of the Eastern Catholic Churches, married man can join the priesthood (but not the episcopacy).

Now even though the Anglican Use is within the borders of the Latin Rite, priestly celibacy is not enforced for reasons similar to why priestly celibacy was not enforced when the Eastern Churches joined with Rome.

So in sum, I don't think this will be a move to allow all Catholic priests to marry. Within the Latin Rite, it is preferred and has been for a while that married men and women give 100% to their spouses and families while priests give 100% to God. Obviously other culturally different, theologically "correct" and ritually different groups have a different stance on the matter but within our Rite, this practice seems steady.