THE CHURCH:More Applicants At Seminary Schools As Vatican Might Allow Catholic Priests To Marry(If Desire Be).

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For centuries and decades passed,all I have witnessed and knows is that Catholic Priests practice CELIBACY...but according to news I culled from punchonline.com that vatican is ready to discuss about allowing priests to marry if they so desired and if the majorities of catholicans accepted the idea...

Bellow is the article according to punch news online.

In what is an unprecedented move, the
Vatican has opened the door to the
possibility of Catholic priests being allowed
to marry.
For centuries Catholic Church tradition has
required celibacy from priests.

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The Canon Law of the church states, “Clerics are
obliged to observe perfect and perpetual
continence for the sake of the kingdom of
heaven, and therefore are bound to
celibacy, which is a special gift of God by
which sacred ministers can adhere more
easily to Christ with an undivided heart and
are able to dedicate themselves more freely
to the service of God and humanity.”

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However, News Express on Thursday
reported that Archbishop Pietro Parolin,
the incoming Number Two leader in the
Catholic Church when be becomes
secretary of state next month, had declared
that priestly vow of celibacy derived from
an age-old rule but was not Catholic
dogma.
“It’s not a dogma of the Church and it can
be discussed because it’s an ecclesiastical
tradition,” Archbishop Parolin told El
Universal in Venezuela, where he is
completing his term as Papal Nuncio.
This has been interpreted to mean that the
church under reformist-minded Pope
Francis I would welcome married
priesthood if most Catholics so desire.

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The number of priests has been declining
steadily partly because of the rule on
celibacy. In the United States alone, about
30,000 priests have left because they
wanted to pursue a relationship.
“I think it would be an enormously
welcome conversation,” Thomas Groome, a
professor of theology at Boston College,
USA, told interviewers. “I think Catholics,
certainly American Catholics, but Catholics
of the world, have been waiting for this
conversation.”
Groome said that the idea of complete
celibacy among the clergy only started to
become standard practice in the 11th, 12th,
and 13th centuries.
He added, “As far as we can tell from the
Gospels, all of the apostles were married,
with the possible exception of John.”

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Am not opposing the decision/intention of the Church/Vatican,but in my own opinion or understanding, I think priests should just continue to practice CELIBACY,because that is what makes the catholic church so unique apart from Holy Mass/Holy Communion,some other sacraments and the the church's dogma...If the church must allow married priest as an advanced advantage,they should also undergo some interesting reasonable research on its disadvantage towards the work of the church not only the priests and of the GOSPEL OF CHRIST.

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