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Practicing Catholic here. To add a reference about vows of celibacy: the minor (but notable!) exception are priests in Anglican Ordinariate who were validly mar
by madars 5y ago
Practicing Catholic here. To add a reference about vows of celibacy: the minor (but notable!) exception are priests in Anglican Ordinariate who were validly married before their Catholic ordination. https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19810401_chiesa-episcopaliana_en.html https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu... this is a temporary exception, though, and does not signify any change in the Church's discipline of clerical celibacy.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> the minor (but notable!) exception are priests in Anglican Ordinariate who were validly married before their Catholic ordination. The major exception is the priesthood of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches; priestly celibacy is a discipline of the Latin Rite, not a universal discipline or doctrine of the Catholic Church. > this is a temporary exception, though, and does not signify any change in the Church's discipline of clerical celibacy. Sure, the most recent change was the reestablishment of the permanent diaconate within the Latin Rite, since before that the diaconate (and, before it was suppressed, also the subdiaconate) were within the scope of clerical celibacy.