Discussions of Latin-Rite Married Priests Gets Serious in Amazon Region and Quebec

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The question about ordaining married men is bound to be asked, I think, in connection with next year’s synod, even though it is expressly focusing on the special needs of remote dioceses in sparsely populated areas of the Amazon region. Ordinands and seminarians are going to ask, “If it’s all right for married men to be ordained in parts of Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela, then why not here in Chicago, or Toronto, or Dublin as well?”

The full text of the Preparatory Document is available here:
http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/06/08/180608a.html
 
Yeah if the proposal to ordain married men goes through in the Amazon (which I think is likely) I don’t think anyone expects it to remain limited to that area. The fact that Quebec’s bishops are discussing this already demonstrates that other bishops are interested and possibly anticipating an outcome in favor of married priests at the Amazon synod. Unsurprisingly, the German bishops have already indicated their interest as well.
 
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When Erwin Kräutler was still the bishop of the prelature of Xingu in Brazil, he campaigned strenuously, for years on end, both for women and for married men to be ordained priests, to meet the need for bringing the Eucharist to the scattered communities in his vast, sparsely populated prelature. Under Benedict XVI he realized he was getting nowhere, but when Francis was elected he renewed his campaign, believing he might now get a sympathetic hearing in Rome. His fellow Brazilian bishops advised him to drop his call for women priests and to concentrate on married men, telling him it would improve his chances of success. Judging from one or two remarks Pope Francis has made recently on the subject, I’d say those chances are pretty good.
http://catholicherald.co.uk/comment...ed-priests-likely-to-be-on-2019-synod-agenda/
 
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I really wish the Church would stop with all these great idea fairy synods. As though the Church has just been too dense to realize it was wrong for the past 2,000 years enforcing certain things. Solving temporary crisis’ by altering the entire tradition of the Church is a bad idea. If this is allowed in the Amazon then it is allowed everywhere, and the nature of the priesthood is completely changed.

Can not Deacons the consecrated Eucharist, if that is the concern?
 
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FirstFiveEighth said:
I really wish the Church would stop with all these great idea fairy synods. As though the Church has just been too dense to realize it was wrong for the past 2,000 years enforcing certain things. Solving temporary crisis’ by altering the entire tradition of the Church is a bad idea. If this is allowed in the Amazon then it is allowed everywhere, and the nature of the priesthood is completely changed.

Can not Deacons the consecrated Eucharist, if that is the concern?
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There are already married priests in the Church.
 
Yes there are. But it is a special dispensation for already married clergy of other denominations.
 
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