Pope Francis says married priests possible, calls celibacy a ‘temporary prescription’

Pope Francis says Catholic Church banning priests from engaging in sex is 'temporary'

Pope Francis said the Catholic Church's thousand-year-old practice of celibacy could be changed. In a recent interview with an Argentine publication Infobae, Francis said the ban on priests having sex was only "temporary" and that there is "no contradiction for a priest to marry." "There is no contradiction for a priest to marry. Celibacy in the western Church is a temporary prescription," Francis said. "It is not eternal like priestly ordinatio…

Pope Francis Suggests Catholic Church Should End Celibacy Requirement for Priests

The Catholic Church could strike down its celibacy requirement for priests following new comments from Pope Francis. The Church has struggled with a shortage of priests in recent years and the change may attract more young men to religious life.  “There is no contradiction for a priest to marry. Celibacy in the western Church is a temporary prescription,” said Francis during an interview with Argentina’s Infobae. “It is not eternal like priestly…

Pope Francis says celibacy for Catholic priests is 'temporary,' ban could be reconsidered

The pope said celibacy is "a discipline."

Pope Francis suggests he’ll review Catholic Church’s vow of celibacy for priests

Pope Francis, who previously maintained that celibacy was a requirement for priests, has now suggested that the practice is an individual "discipline" rather than a "contradiction" to the church.

‘Not eternal’: Pope Francis says vow of celibacy can be revised to drop marriage, sex ban on priests

Pope Francis said that while celibacy in priesthood is a ‘gift from God,’ it is also a ‘provisional’ observed mostly by Western churches

Pope Francis says married priests possible, calls celibacy a ‘temporary prescription’

Pope Francis has called celibacy for priests a "temporary prescription," signaling a potential end to a centuries-old requirement of the Roman Catholic Church that the clergy should not marry.