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  2. Clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, in general, rule out ordination of married men to the episcopate, and marriage after priestly ordination. Throughout the Catholic Church, East as well as West, a priest may not marry. In the Eastern Catholic Churches, a married priest is one who married before being ordained.

  3. Clerical celibacy - Wikipedia

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    In some Christian churches, such as the western and some eastern sections of the Catholic Church, priests and bishops must as a rule be unmarried men. In others, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, the churches of Oriental Orthodoxy and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests, but may not remarry if their wife dies, and celibacy is required ...

  4. Sex and gender roles in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The woman of a higher social class was allowed to repent in private. Common prostitutes of the time period were banned from churches, but there was little to no prosecution of their "male clientele". [44] However, the priests of the higher classes were punished most severely for sexual crimes. They were stripped of their rank, position, and ...

  5. 11 suing diocese over alleged abuse by priests - AOL

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    Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...

  6. Catholic priests bless same-sex couples in defiance of a ...

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    Several Catholic priests held a ceremony blessing same-sex couples outside Cologne Cathedral on Wednesday night in a protest against the city’s conservative archbishop, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki.

  7. EXPLAINER: How can Catholic priests bless same-sex unions?

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    This is because the Catholic Church teaches that marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman. Nothing has changed about the church’s position on marriage, its firm opposition to gay ...