2 Steubenville priests gain legal custody of 2-year-old boy
August 22, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: The Pillar recounts how two priests of the Diocese of Steubenville, Ohio, gained legal custody of a two-year-old boy.
“Canon law does not explicitly address the possibility of clerics, especially celibate clerics, taking custody of children,” the report notes. “There have been some critics who suggest that raising a child in a parish rectory is unbecoming to the clerical state. Others have suggested that the priests are performing a work of mercy, and giving witness to the Church’s enduring care for souls.”
“Ultimately, deciding that matter is not up to observers, but to the diocesan bishop.”
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