UK vicar general calls for female priests, ending celibacy requirement to ease clergy shortages
'The issue of married clergy – the removal of compulsory celibacy would be a significant move and long overdue,' Canon Joe Wheat also said.
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UK bishop forbids priest from saying private Mass while church open during new lockdown
Father David Palmer, a priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, had previously announced online that he would be arrested rather than deny the sacraments to people again. But on Wednesday, the day before the lockdown, he tweeted to say that his bishop had forbidden him from saying his private Mass while the church was open.
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