{"id":3588,"date":"2009-10-29T15:40:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/celibacy-issue-holding-up-anglican-document.html"},"modified":"2009-10-29T15:40:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T15:40:52","slug":"celibacy-issue-holding-up-anglican-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/celibacy-issue-holding-up-anglican-document.html","title":{"rendered":"Celibacy issue holding up Anglican document"},"content":{"rendered":"

That seems to be a sticking point <\/a>in publishing the document that will help ease the way for Anglicans hoping to enter the Catholic Church: <\/p>\n

\nThe delay in publishing the apostolic constitution, which will allow large numbers of Anglicans to be received into the Catholic Church, is due not so much to translation problems as the more weighty issue of priestly celibacy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to two reliably informed Italian newspapers, Il Giornale and Il Foglio, canon lawyers are continuing to define what has been a particularly unclear aspect of the new provision: whether married Anglicans could train as seminarians. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nAndrea Tornielli of Il Giornale reports that over the last few days, the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts has been working to clarify this point. He writes that “everything suggests” seminarians in these future Anglo-Catholic communities “will have to be celibate like all their colleagues in the Latin Catholic Church.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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