Time runs, but any things do not change: for example, progressive births of bishops from Germany. average Spiri Karl-Heinz Wiesemann demands that celibacy be loosened and women allowed to deconate.
The bishop spoke about this on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the reception of the priesthood. As he emphasized, he never regretted becoming a priest. However, he believes that celibacy should be abolished.
– I am willing to abolish celibacy as a request to become a priest – he said. – We request to proceed celibacy as a vital spiritual form of life, by which the priestly full devotion to service becomes evident and where it is realized. It is inactive a valuable spiritual way of life for spiritual and diocesan priests. However, I believe that there could besides be another ways to express their complete devotion to Christ and his Church. This is besides possible in marriage, which could besides bring to light another aspects – he added.
– The essential link between priesthood and celibacy must be abolished He ruled. – There are already exceptions said, referring most likely to married Anglican pastors who convert to Catholicism.
According to Bishop Wiesemanna, voluntary celibacy would reconstruct the credibility of this way of life in the eyes of society. Hierarcha believes that specified a solution could be implemented regionally without having to operate worldwide. – I imagine any local churches, specified as the Church in Germany, would go this way – he said. According to Bishop Wiesemanna, the work to celibate makes many good people not priests, although they would do otherwise if they could accept the priesthood as married.
The bishop besides said that he advocated the sanctification of women as deacons, as – as he said – the Lord Jesus became not a man, but a man. Hierarch, however, ruled out the anticipation of giving the deaconate to a female on his own, due to the fact that it would put him outside the law of the Church. He besides does not want to consider ordination of women along with a group of bishops, which would jeopardise the unity of the Church, and this is the thing to be defended very much, he stressed.
Source: Katholisch.de
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