Australian archbishop: allow married priests for indigenous peoples
August 14, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane has suggested that aboriginal tribes should be exempt from the requirement of priestly celibacy, because there is “no way you’re going to recruit a celibate clergy in those cultures.”
The archbishop said that this suggestion could be introduced at the October meeting of the Synod on Synodality.
Bishop Charles Gauci of Darwin agreed: “With Aboriginal people, we need to be respectful of culture. Pope Francis has said that he is open in certain situations to ordaining married men; that is not off the agenda.”
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