Married priests in the Catholic Church /

"Priestly celibacy and the possibility (and reality) of married Catholic priests has been greatly discussed in recent years, a fire fueled even more by the controversies around the Amazon Synod and Cardinal Sarah's public argument against having married priests. This book aims to show that...

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Other Authors: DeVille, Adam A. J., 1972- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2021
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction-Adam A. J. DeVille
  • Part I. History Ancient and Modern
  • One Priestly Celibacy-An Apostolic Tradition? The Theological Stakesof a Historical Argument
  • Two From Antioch to America via Smyrna: Rethinking Married Priesthood and Parish Life with Ignatius, Alexis, and Polycarp
  • Three Mandatory Celibacy among Eastern Catholics:A Church-Dividing Issue
  • Part II. Canon Law East and West
  • Four Canonical Reflections on Clergy and Marriage
  • Five Recent Papal Pronouncements on the Admission of MarriedEastern Catholic Men to the Priesthood: An Ecumenical Issue
  • Part III. Ecumenical Considerations
  • Six Married Clergy in the Anglican Tradition
  • Seven The Gift to the Church of Married Clergy
  • Eight Official Catholic Pronouncements Regarding Presbyteral Celibacy:Their Fate and the Implications for Catholic-Orthodox Relations
  • Part IV. Pastoral-Familial Life
  • Nine Reflections on Two Vocations in Two Lungs of the One Church
  • Ten Growing Up in a Rectory: Using Oikonomia to Answer the Tough Questions Posed by the Children of Priestly Families
  • Eleven The Vocation of the Presbytera: Icon of the Theotokos in the Midstof the Ministerial Priesthood
  • Twelve The Joys and Crosses of Clerical Families
  • Thirteen Marriage and Ministry: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective
  • Fourteen "What Did You Expect?" A Reflection on Married Clergyand Pastoral Ministry
  • Part V. Theology
  • Fifteen Celibacy and the Married Priesthood: Rediscovering the Spousal Mystery
  • Sixteen Married Priests: At the Heart of Tradition
  • Seventeen Married Priesthood: Some Theological "Resonances"
  • Eighteen Conclusion: Toward a Theology of Married Priesthood
  • Appendix 1. The Toronto Tempest-Victor Pospishil,.
  • Appendix 2. Recent Views on the Origins of Clerical Celibacy: A Review of the Literature from 1980 to 1991
  • Contributors
  • Index.