A national assembly of Brazilian priests has reportedly written a letter to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy calling for removal of the celibacy requirement for priests.
(An unnamed Brazilian bishop is quoted saying that there are already lots of married priests in his country, and that the Vatican is pretending it doesn’t know.)
The news comes less than a week after the head of the German bishops’ conference stirred a ruckus by saying that priestly celibacy is not “theologically necessary.”
