{"id":28144,"date":"2014-11-17T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=28144"},"modified":"2014-11-18T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T14:22:09","slug":"pope-francis-lifts-mandatory-celibacy-for-eastern-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2014\/11\/17\/pope-francis-lifts-mandatory-celibacy-for-eastern-catholics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Lifts Mandatory Celibacy for Eastern Catholic Clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is <em>very <\/em>big news in Eastern Catholic circles.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has approved lifting the ban on the ordination of married men to the priesthood in Eastern Catholic churches outside their traditional territories, including in the United States, Canada and Australia. The ban was not being observed by some Eastern Catholic bishops in recent decades, but in more recent years Rome tended to look the other way. Now the situation is regularized, with any Eastern Catholic church free to abolish mandatory celibacy.<\/p>\n<p>Each Eastern church is <em>sui juris,<\/em> and so the Ruthenians can ordain married men to the priesthood anywhere now, while the Syro-Malabars, for example, are free to retain the discipline of celibacy in the diaspora, though Rome does not require it of them.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story, including some interesting history, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/home\/international\/item\/19206-vatican-lifts-ban-on-married-priests-for-eastern-catholics-in-diaspora\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is <i>very<\/i> big news in Eastern Catholic circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1081,43,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-reform","category-eastern-liturgy","category-ordained-ministry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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