Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Calls For Abolishing Celibacy
Malta's Archbishop Charles Scicluna, 64, who is adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wants to abolish celibacy, he told TimesOfMalta.com (7 January). He believes "the …More
Malta's Archbishop Charles Scicluna, 64, who is adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, wants to abolish celibacy, he told TimesOfMalta.com (7 January).
He believes "the time is ripe" for decisions on the issue. "This is probably the first time I've said it publicly and it will sound heretical to some people."
Monsignor Scicluna spread the historical lie that celibacy was "optional for the first millennium" of the Church's existence and that it should be "optional again" [= abolished].
In reality, celibacy goes back to the Apostles, as the Gospels testify. All accounts from the early centuries consider the children of priests illegitimate, as Cardinal Alfons Stickler (1910-2007), among others, has shown.
There is no evidence that abolishing celibacy would make the Church more holy, more Catholic and apostolic - on the contrary.
Picture: © Mazur, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsDiamlievwc
He believes "the time is ripe" for decisions on the issue. "This is probably the first time I've said it publicly and it will sound heretical to some people."
Monsignor Scicluna spread the historical lie that celibacy was "optional for the first millennium" of the Church's existence and that it should be "optional again" [= abolished].
In reality, celibacy goes back to the Apostles, as the Gospels testify. All accounts from the early centuries consider the children of priests illegitimate, as Cardinal Alfons Stickler (1910-2007), among others, has shown.
There is no evidence that abolishing celibacy would make the Church more holy, more Catholic and apostolic - on the contrary.
Picture: © Mazur, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsDiamlievwc
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In the meantime, Archbishop Scicluna is proposing to abandon celibacy…
Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
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No wonder so many good Catholics no longer go to the Novus Ordo Vatican II service.
If he's thinking he might benefit from it, let me be the first to point out that that ship has sailed for him....... 
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As I remarked on another thread, the Anglican communion has married priests, and women priests and openly 'gay' priests, but it is imploding even more quickly than the Catholic Church currently is. QED.
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For those who wish to reject Christ and His Church, I don’t know why they don’t just join up with one of those sects who allows such things…if, in fact, those are the things they wish to see implemented in a “church.” Just go where such things are already permitted. 
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Sounds like he got aroused by Tucho.