{"id":3463,"date":"2007-07-03T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/make-room-for-daddy-the-married-priest.html"},"modified":"2007-07-03T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T11:25:00","slug":"make-room-for-daddy-the-married-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/07\/make-room-for-daddy-the-married-priest.html","title":{"rendered":"Make room for Daddy, the married priest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ordination season is drawing to a close, but that hasn’t stopped them in Europe<\/a>. And celibacy doesn’t seem to be an issue for these new priests, either: <\/p>\n

Two former Lutheran ministers have been ordained to the priesthood for the Catholic Church in Germany in recent weeks, and one in Austria. <\/p>\n

Father Hans-Tilmann Golde, a former Lutheran and the married father of 3 children, was ordained on June 30 for the Diocese of Eichstatt. In May another former Lutheran cleric, Gerhard Stille, was ordained in Paderborn. <\/p>\n

Father Gerhard Hoberth, yet another ex-Lutheran, was recently ordained as a priest of the Vienna, Austria, archdiocese. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/i> Welcome, guys! (Everyone please scoot down and make more room in your pew. Thank you.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ordination season is drawing to a close, but that hasn’t stopped them in Europe. And celibacy doesn’t seem to be an issue for these new priests, either: Two former Lutheran ministers have been ordained to the priesthood for the Catholic Church in Germany in recent weeks, and one in Austria. 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