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Article: Priests tell bishops: marriage enhances ministry: Milwaukee example spurs growing letter-writing campaign urging reevaluation of celibacy.(Nation)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 26, 2003
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Bishop Wilton Gregory's mailbox has been stuffed with more than Christmas cards this year. In the last few months, there has been a windstorm of letters from priests all across the country asking the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to urge the discussion of optional celibacy for priests.
With the decline of vocations, the large number of aging priests and the increasing workload of priests who, because of thinning ranks and clustered parishes, find themselves overworked and frustrated, many priests are convinced that there should be a thorough reevaluation of a married priesthood.
The letters began in the Milwaukee archdiocese Aug. ...