Papal Biographer: “Francis Wants Bishops To Ask Permissions For Married Priests”

Amazon dioceses can "apply diocese by diocese for permission from Rome" to ordain married men to the priesthood, wrote Francis biographer Austen Ivereigh (CommonwealMagazine.org, February 27).

Ivereih quotes Cardinal Cláudio Hummes who told journalists that ordaining married men would be dealt with directly by the bishops "in dialogue" with Francis.

Bishop Neri José of Juína, Brazil, told Ivereih that Francis has “thrown the ball right back in our court,” adding that it is now time for "courage."

Ivereih believes that abolishing celibacy "will be the result of a regional synodal process."

Ivereih found out from an anonymous Vatican source that Francis "is asking the bishops to come up with concrete proposals."

According to Ivereih, Francis was concerned about the polarisation over the issue and "deeply dismayed" at the "politicking" by the Cardinals Ouellet and Sarah who defended celibacy.

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GChevalier

Feb 28, 2020

What was I saying? The ANTICHRIST DEFINITIVELY APPROVES of MARRIED PRIESTS What the Antichrist has marked is going to be accomplished, and he urges the bishops to ask him for it, even saying that it is courage, and so he will do the same thing he did with the bishops of Buenos Aires for Amoris Laetitia. Will the transgressors finally understand? I'm not sure, because they're a tough bunch.

Eric M

3Feb 28, 2020

Haha, the picture is priceless showing who the arch-king of all heretics and sodomites truly is...

Ultraviolet

Feb 27, 2020

"just how vile and vicious they get when challenged." ---said the man who calls peope "blithering malicious idiots" and "maniacal sedevacantists" all of which is mild compared to what he calls the Pope.

Thors Catholic Hammer

3Feb 27, 2020

Poor Austin Ivereih.
Having written a book about a man he thinks is pope he must now defend to the death his great mistake of accepting the invalid conclave of 2013 that elected an antipope.
What is also notable in many defenders of the antipope is just how vile and vicious they get when challenged.

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