Catholics And Their Right To Married Priests

Author : Heinz-J. Vogels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2011-03
Category : Celibacy
ISBN : 1456774719

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Catholics and Their Right to Married Priests by Heinz-J. Vogels Pdf

Catholics worldwide suffer from a dire shortage of priests. The only solution, a commonly shared opinion says, are married priests. Therefore, The discipline of the Roman Catholic Church must be changed. This book tells the story from the side of the priests: They should generally be allowed to be married, if they do not have the charism of living a celibate life - and very few do, according to Matt 19:11. The author is one of those who promote this reform.With untiring eagerness, Vogels succeeded in repeatedly challenging the various church authorities time and time again, right through To The highest positions in the Vatican, To clarify the fundamental question of the right of priests to marry, and he eventually got the satisfaction that, In the final analysis, The Vatican was not able to counter the arguments which he brought forward.The conclusion from all the efforts in his battle For The right of a Catholic priest to be married, Is this: Every priest can enter a sacramental marriage referring himself to 1 Cor 9:5. Rome will not declare such a marriage invalid, because the Petrine office cannot decide against the divine right, and has not done so in his case.And The conclusion for laypeople is: If priests who are not endowed by God with the charism of celibacy have the right to be married, then the laity has the right to have married priests, As well in the East of the Catholic Church, As in the Latin speaking West. 45.000 married priests are waiting to be reinstalled, and in the future no shortage of priests would ever occur.

Author : Adam A. J. DeVille
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268200114

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Married Priests in the Catholic Church by Adam A. J. DeVille Pdf

These essays offer a historically rigorous dismantling of Western claims about the superiority of celibate priests. Although celibacy is often seen as a distinctive feature of the Catholic priesthood, both Catholic and Orthodox Churches in fact have rich and diverse traditions of married priests. The essays contained in Married Priests in the Catholic Church offer the most comprehensive treatment of these traditions to date. These essays, written by a wide-ranging group that includes historians, pastors, theologians, canon lawyers, and the wives and children of married Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox priests, offer diverse perspectives from many countries and traditions on the subject, including personal, historical, theological, and canonical accounts. As a collection, these essays push especially against two tendencies in thinking about married priesthood today. Against the idea that a married priesthood would solve every problem in Catholic clerical culture, this collection deromanticizes and demythologizes the notion of married priesthood. At the same time, against distinctively modern theological trends that posit the superiority, apostolicity, and “ontological” necessity of celibate priests, this collection refutes the claim that priestly ordination and celibacy must be so closely linked. In addressing the topic of married priesthood from both practical and theoretical angles, and by drawing on a variety of perspectives, Married Priests in the Catholic Church will be of interest to a wide audience, including historians, theologians, canon lawyers, and seminary professors and formators, as well as pastors, parish leaders, and laypeople. Contributors: Adam A. J. DeVille, David G. Hunter, Dellas Oliver Herbel, James S. Dutko, Patrick Viscuso, Alexander M. Laschuk, John Hunwicke, Edwin Barnes, Peter Galadza, David Meinzen, Julian Hayda, Irene Galadza, Nicholas Denysenko, William C. Mills, Andrew Jarmus, Thomas J. Loya, Lawrence Cross, and Basilio Petrà.

Author : Donald Paul Sullins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199860043

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Keeping the Vow by Donald Paul Sullins Pdf

Although many Catholics, and certainly most non-Catholics, are unaware of it, the rule of celibacy for Catholic priests is not absolute. The ordination of a married man is exceptionally rare, but it does occur. In most cases it happens as an accommodation for a married priest of another Christian church, almost always Anglican (Episcopalian), who has converted to the Catholic faith and wishes to serve in the Catholic priesthood. The Anglican Pastoral Provision, a set of streamlined canonical policies established by Pope John Paul II in 1980, encouraged the reception of these priest. Since then over a hundred men-most married, most Episcopalian-have been ordained; today there are seventy-five married former Episcopalian priests serving in the U.S. Catholic Church. Based on one hundred fifteen interviews augmented by biographical, survey and historical research,Keeping the Vow tells the story of these married priests and their wives, their unusual and difficult journey from Anglicanism and their life in the Catholic Church. Sullins explores the perspectives of this small group of men and their wives and how they juxtapose a unique set of identities and perspectives. A full-sample national survey provides the views of U.S. bishops on the practice of married priest ordination. The book's extensive use of quotes and personal narrative helps bring these stories to life, while sociological analysis provides a clear view of their collective features and discusses implications for related social and religious issues such as conversion, priesthood, worship, marital roles and celibacy. An engaging study on Catholicism, Anglicanism, American religion, and marriage, Keeping the Vow expands the discussion on the future prospects and effects married priests in the Catholic Church.

Author : Anthony P. Kowalski
Publisher : Crossroad
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114530293

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Married Catholic Priests by Anthony P. Kowalski Pdf

Married Catholic Priests shows the remarkable experience of American Catholic priests who marry. In part a fascinating historical review, the book includes varied experiences of married priests in our time, whether active in the church or not. Kowalski manifests a strong faith, a positive affirmation of church and priesthood, and a welcoming embrace of the stirrings of the Spirit in these times.

Author : Jane Anderson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826418309

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Priests in Love by Jane Anderson Pdf

Deals with the moral, psychological, and social challenges faced by Roman Catholic priests who left the active ministry in the 1960s and 1970s to get married--men who chose responsible sexual relationships over a life of obligatory celibacy.

Author : Fulton J. Sheen
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Priest Is Not His Own by Fulton J. Sheen Pdf

Most books on the priesthood may be grouped into three categories: theological, pastoral and sociological. The theological treatises emphasize the priest as the minister and ambassador of Christ; the pastoral writings are concerned with the priest in the pulpit, the priest in the confessional, the priest at prayer, etc. The sociological writings, which are the latest type, refrain almost entirely from the spiritual and are concerned with the statistical study of the reaction of the faithful, the unbelievers and the general public to the priest. Is there room for another category? Such a possibility presented itself in writing our Life of Christ. In that book, we tried to show that, unlike anyone else, Our Lord came on earth not to live but to die. Death for our Redemption was the goal of His sojourn here, the gold that He was seeking. Every parable, every incident in His life—even the call of the Apostles, the temptation, the Transfiguration, the long conversation with the woman at the well—was focused upon that salutary death. He was, therefore, not primarily a teacher, but a Savior. The dark days in which that Life of Christ was written were hours when ink and gall did mix to reveal the mystery of the Crucifix. More and more that vision of Christ as Savior began to illumine the priesthood, and out of it came the thoughts in this book. To save anyone from reading it through, we here state briefly the thesis. We who have received the Sacrament of Orders call ourselves “priests”. The author does not recall any priest ever having said, “I was ordained a ‘victim’ ”, nor did he ever say, “I am studying to be a victim.” That seemed almost alien to being a priest. The seminary always told us to be “good” priests; never were we told to be willing victims. And yet was not Christ, the Priest, a Victim? Did He not come to die? He did not offer a lamb, a bullock or doves; He never offered anything except Himself. He gave Himself up on our behalf, a sacrifice breathing out fragrance as He offered it to God. (Ephesians 5:2) Pagan priests, Old Testament priests, medicine men, all offered a sacrifice apart from themselves. But not Our Lord. He was Sacerdos-Victima. This being so, just as we miss much in the life of Christ by not showing that the shadow of the Cross cast itself even over the crib and the carpenter shop as well as over His public life, so we have a mutilated concept of our priesthood if we envisage it apart from making ourselves victims in the prolongation of His Incarnation. There is nothing else in this book but that idea. And if the reader would like to hear that chord struck a hundred times, he may now proceed.

Author : Michele Prince
Publisher : Hope Publishing House
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0932727603

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Mandatory Celibacy in the Catholic Church by Michele Prince Pdf

Author : Heinz-Jürgen Vogels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1556126530

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Celibacy by Heinz-Jürgen Vogels Pdf

The Catholic Church is at present tearing itself to pieces over the issue of the law of clerical celibacy. It might seem to some only a marginal or administrative problem, but it in fact goes to the heart of the matter on every side of modern church life. It is, of course, first of all an issue of sexuality, originall deriving from a beleife that all sex produces moral impurity. But it has gone on to become an issue about power, about pastoral care, and about sheer honesty. The publication in English of Vogel's scholaraly study of the subject is immensely to be welcomed. -from the Foreword byAdrien Hastings

Author : Adam A. J. DeVille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0268200084

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Married Priests in the Catholic Church by Adam A. J. DeVille Pdf

"Priestly celibacy and the possibility (and reality) of married Catholic priests has been greatly discussed in recent years, a fire fueled even more by the controversies around the Amazon Synod and Cardinal Sarah's public argument against having married priests. This book aims to show that the history of celibacy in the Catholic Church is far more complex, and far less univocal, than apologists for it have hitherto asserted. Having made the historical case against the idea that celibacy is somehow "apostolic," the book offers reflections on the life and unique vocation of married priests, including reflections on the role and experiences of the spouses and children of Catholic priests in both the Eastern Catholic as well as Latin (Roman) Catholic churches. There is a need for serious reflection and discussion on married priesthood in both its historical and theological-pastoral aspects-not least because more and more married priests are ordained in the Roman Catholic Church every year-converts from Anglicanism and Lutheranism especially. And then there are married Eastern Catholic priests whose presence in the Catholic Church remains one of its best kept secrets. The pastoral work of these men, and the collaboration of their wives and children, offer both a wealth of experience and challenges that the wider Catholic Church needs to know about-whether or not there is to be any change in the requirement of celibacy for Roman priests. This book tells those stories while also informing Roman Catholics of the unique challenges of a married priesthood. The result is a completely unique account, covering issues from a perspective that nobody else has done to date. It's essentially a handbook on the topic"--

Author : Fr. Carter Griffin
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781949013337

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Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest by Fr. Carter Griffin Pdf

“The Church today demands a profound renewal of celibate priesthood and the fatherhood to which it is ordered.” Priestly celibacy, some say, is an outdated relic from another age. Others see it as a lonely way of life. But as Fr. Carter Griffin argues in Why Celibacy?: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest, the ancient practice of celibacy, when lived well, helps a priest exercise his spiritual fatherhood joyfully and fruitfully. Along the way, Griffin explores: the question of optional celibacy some pitfalls of celibate paternity the selection and formation of candidates for celibate priesthood why biological fathers are also called to spiritual fatherhood the powerful impact of celibacy on the Church and the wider culture In a critical moment for the Catholic priesthood, Fr. Griffin brings light and hope with a new perspective on the Church’s perennial wisdom on celibacy.

Author : Cattaneo Arturo
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681493275

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Married Priests? by Cattaneo Arturo Pdf

Edited by Dom Arturo Cattaneo Why do Catholic priests not marry? How can celibacy possibly be so important to the Church, if Jesus did not even require it of his apostles? Cannot such an obligation cause sexual deviance, emotional troubles and even cases of pedophilia? These are three among the numerous possible questions that many people ask themselves, often without finding convincing answers. In recent years the arguments in favor of openness to married priests seem to be multiplying. Some object that celibacy is not a dogma but only a discipline that originated in the Middle Ages; that it is contrary to nature and hence harmful for a man's psycho-physical equilibrium and the maturation of the human personality. And then, if priests could marry, there would be an increase in vocations. In this book, seventeen various experts make contributions, responding to these and other burning objections, allowing the reader to discover the value that celibacy has today in the lives of thousands of priests and seminarians. Among the key topics this book discusses are: History of Priestly Celibacy, What Theology Says on the Celibacy, Emotions and Sexuality, Discerning and Fostering a Vocation, Celibacy in the Life of a Priest, Celibacy and Inculturation, Papal teachings on Celibacy from Pius XI to Benedict XVI. "I hope that this book will find the widest possible readership, thus contributing to an ever greater appreciation of priestly celibacy as a precious gift of the Spirit of Christ to his Church and received by young men who-like Saint Paul and so many saints-allow themselves to be "won over by Christ". From the Preface, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy

Author : Pope Benedict XVI,Robert Sarah
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621644149

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From the Depths of Our Hearts by Pope Benedict XVI,Robert Sarah Pdf

"The priesthood is going through a dark time", according to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Robert Cardinal Sarah. "Wounded by the revelation of so many scandals, disconcerted by the constant questioning of their consecrated celibacy, many priests are tempted by the thought of giving up and abandoning everything." In this book, the pope emeritus and the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments give their brother priests, and the whole Church, a message of hope. They honestly address the spiritual challenges faced by priests today, while pointing to deeper conversion to Jesus Christ as the key to faithful and fruitful priestly ministry and genuine reform. Benedict XVI and Cardinal Sarah "fraternally offer these reflections to the people of God and, of course, in a spirit of filial obedience, to Pope Francis", who has said, "I think that celibacy is a gift for the Church. . . . I don't agree with allowing optional celibacy, no." Responding to calls for refashioning the priesthood, including proposals from participants in the Amazonian Synod, two wise, spiritually astute pastors explain the importance of priestly celibacy for the good of the whole Church. Drawing on Vatican II, they present celibacy as not just "a mere precept of ecclesiastical law", but as a sharing in Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross and his identity as Bridegroom of the Church.

Author : Richard A. Schoenherr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195175752

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Goodbye Father by Richard A. Schoenherr Pdf

Preface. Introduction. Part I Celibacy, Patriarchy, and the Priest Shortage. 1 Celibate Exclusivity Is the Issue. 2 Compulsory Celibacy and the Priest Shortage. Part II Social Change in Organized Religion. 3 Toward a Theory of Social Change in Organized Religion. 4 The Transpersonal Paradigm. 5 The Special Character of Organized Religion. 6 Forces for Change in Catholic Ministry. Part III Conflict and Paradox. 7 Unity and Diversity. 8 Immanence and Transcendence. 9 Hierarchy and Hierophany. Part IV Coalitions in the Catholic Church. 10 Bureaucratic Counterinsurgency in Catholic History. 11 Pri.

Author : Rev. Dr. Eugene J. Weitzel, C.S.V.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781453549650

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I Want to be a Husband and Father For Life and a Catholic Priest Forever by Rev. Dr. Eugene J. Weitzel, C.S.V. Pdf

Long before Jesus Christ instituted the sacrament of holy orders, God the Father commanded Adam and Eve and their descendents to be fertile, increase, and multiply and fill the earth, and this command includes candidates for the priesthood in the Latin Rite. It is the author’s firm conviction that the law of celibacy is a serious violation a priest’s basic rights. Most men and women not only need to love God, but also to love a person of the opposite sex at the conjugal level. It is natural, it is healthy, it is most rewarding, and it is a right the church did not enact and require the vow of celibacy to help priests grow spiritually, but for all of the wrong reasons. Eliminate it NOW.

Author : Ian Caldwell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501131967

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The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell Pdf

"A Catholic priest must place his family at risk to solve the death of a Vatican curator" -- back cover.