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Article: Priests, celibate or otherwise.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 5, 2004
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The NCR editorial "A straight line to no more priests" (NCR, Oct. 8) clearly summarizes the present state of the optional celibacy issue but does not offer any thoughts as to where we go from here.
To date, discussion of optional celibacy has been cast in the context of "all or nothing." Are there no alternatives? Might not the Holy See allow the hierarchy of one nation to ordain married men without granting similar permission to all nations? Or might the Holy See grant permission for an individual bishop to ordain a married man for his own diocese without reference to other dioceses? Such precedents in fact already exist.
At the request of the ...