2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The crisis of priests and nuns in the Catholic Church is growing; There is even a prayer for vocations that is said at the end of Sunday mass in various countries of the world. Perhaps for this reason, as a solution, Pope Francis has proposed, in a document titled Instrumentum, tasks that allow married men to become priests, something that has been prohibited in this religion since its formation more than two thousand years ago.
Affirming that celibacy is a gift for the Church, it is requested that, for the most remote areas of the region, the possibility of priestly ordination for elderly people, preferably indigenous, respected and accepted by their community, even if they already have a constituted and stable family”, said text in its chapter IV. “In order to ensure the Sacraments that accompany and sustain the Christian life.
This proposal of the Supreme Pontiff is due to the fact that in the Amazon area the lack of ecclesiastics prevents the pertinent ceremonies and sacraments from being performed; for this reason, he took advantage of the Amazon Synod, which will be held from October 6 to 27, to propose to the viri probati that in Latin it means proven men, married, and to whom, in an extraordinary way, ordination is admitted priestly.
According to specialists, this decision made by Pope Francis is due to his knowledge of the needs of the region and the challenges it faces.
"The concern about how low the number of priests is in the Amazon region is really the fundamental basis for this," explained Gregory Ryan, from the Center for Catholic Studies to the English media BBC. "It is linked to the strong Catholic sense that the Eucharist is at the heart of the regular Christian community."
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