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January 23, 2018

Serving isolated parishes may mean ordaining married men, cardinal says

Priest baptizes a young man in a village along the Urituyacu River in Peru June 2014. The Pope recently called for a church with an "indigenous and Amazonian face" during his visit in Peru.
VATICAN – The idea of exceptionally ordaining older married men of proven virtue to celebrate the Eucharist in isolated Catholic communities is something that should be discussed, said Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy.
Published in International