Married Priests Now!

12/10/2007

it necessary to CANCEL the planned conference in Rome

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

Married Priests Now! and Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo find it necessary to CANCEL the planned conference in Rome, Italy scheduled for December 6-8, 2007.

We have not been able to acquire the necessary funds to support this project.

We regret if this cancellation is a disappointment and inconvenience to any of you.

We will continue to work together for the return of married priests to full dignity and honor.

Cordially yours,

+Peter Paul Brennan
Married Priests Now! Catholic Prelature
Vicar General USA

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11/10/2007

CELIBACY: 50,000 MARRIED PRIESTS, BUT NO CHANGE IMMINENT

(source: AGI) - Vatican City, Oct.9 -

F.Giuseppe Serrone suggested a possible solution: "extending the prerogatives granted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in 1980 to the married priests of the US Episcopal Conference, accepted in the full communion of the Catholic church and accepted as married priests at the presbyteral ministry".

"Celibacy is not a dogma. The lack of vocation may lead the Catholic church to open up to married priests", which are over 50,000 in the world, at least 8,000 in Italy. This is what the new prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, Brazilian cardinal Claudio Hummes said, fostering the hopes of a possible opening by Pope Ratzinger on this issue, to the point that Giuseppe Serrone, and Italian spokesman of Monsignor Emanuel Milingo, immediately suggested a possible solution: "extending the prerogatives granted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in 1980 to the married priests of the US Episcopal Conference, accepted in the full communion of the Catholic church and accepted as married priests at the presbyteral ministry". But the opening was immediately shut: at an appositely convened meeting, the Pope and ministry leaders reaffirmed "the value of celibacy for priests, following the Catholic tradition", and reasserted "the need for a solid human and Christian formation, both for seminarians and priests".

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