First ordination of married priest

[lovuian]

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First ordination of married priest

DAVID ROSS, Highland Correspondent March 02 2005







THE first ordination of a married Catholic priest in Scotland is to be held in Inverness tonight, and will be attended by his wife.
Rev James Bell, 64, a former priest of the Scottish Episcopal and Anglican Churches, was ordained as a deacon at Huntly in September by Bishop Peter Moran, the Bishop of Aberdeen, who will officiate again tonight in the city's St Mary's Church.
Although approval for such an ordination is needed from the Vatican, there is no celibacy requirement.
Since the early 1980s, married priests and ministers from other faiths have been allowed to enter the Catholic priesthood – but if their spouses die, they cannot re-marry.
The flow of converts increased dramatically as the ordination of women priests became an issue within the Anglican Communion. In 1994, seven bishops and more than 700 clergy announced they were becoming Catholics in the wake of the final decision by the Church of England to ordain women priests.
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[98geoduck]

1. Should ease some sexual tension in the priesthood.

[papau]

2. In US the Catholic Pope accepted married Episcopal priests as Catholic

Priests when they split from Episcopal Church a few years back.

[DemBones DemBones]

3. Lutherans; too, apparently. Rather unfair to those who

gave up the right to marry in order to become Catholic priests.

[rodeodance]

4. they moved to the Catholic faith cause women could be ordained in their

faith. What a bunch of crapo!!

[Bridget Burke]

5. The Eastern Rites churches also allow married priests.

These churches use the Orthodox "style" of worship but accept the leadership of Rome.

Every little bit helps.