Abolishing Celibacy: Cardinal Marx Still Hopes
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"Perhaps we will also have priests who are not celibate - why not?" - he suddenly replaced the sermon with church politics.
Marx hopes that the "Corona pandemic" will encourage these "debates" in the church, although Covid-19 has accelerated the exodus of the German faithful and thus diminished the need for priests.
Picture: Reinhard Marx, © Mazur, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsPqodqytsax
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