Cardinal Matteo Zuppi: Celibacy Does Not Mean Living without Affection

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Christ! Doesn’t the crap coming out of America ever end? Why don’t Americans try being normal and measured for a change? Why don’t they give up these extreme positions on everything? – ©Mark

Près de 80% des prêtres autrichiens veulent abolir le célibat
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: SONDAGE: Près de 80% des prêtres autrichiens souhaitent que l'Eglise ordonne des hommes mariés pour faire face au manque de vocations, selon une étude rendue publique lundi.

Et une majorité (51%) se prononce en faveur de l'ordination des femmes.

L'institut de sondage GfK a interrogé 500 ecclésiastiques, soit environ le tiers des prêtres autrichiens, dans le cadre d'une émission de la télévision publique ORF. L'enquête réalisée par téléphone montre que la base souhaite plus de modernité dans l'Eglise. >>> ATS | Mardi 29 Juin 2010

Polish Church under Growing Pressure
Twenty years have passed since the end of communism in Poland and there are signs that the institution that led the struggle against the regime, the Catholic Church, is under threat in the modern democratic consumerist society.

Under communism, becoming a priest was a step up the social ladder.

But now the number of young men entering seminaries is falling, and a survey suggests that more than half of the country's serving priests would like to do away with celibacy to have a wife and family.

According to the findings of Professor Jozef Baniak, a sociologist who specialises in religion at the department of theology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, more than 12% even admitted they were presently living in stable relationships with women.

In the land that produced the late Pope John Paul II, most churches are still full on Sundays.

But Polish society has been changing rapidly, and according to Father Wieslaw Dawidowski, an Augustinian friar in Warsaw, that is reflected in the behaviour of its priests.

"What worries me is the number of priests who are living a second life that is working as a Catholic priest which presumes to be a celibate, and at the same time having an affair with a woman," he said. >>> By Adam Easton, BBC News, Warsaw | Sunday, February 15, 2009

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