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Fr. Heimerl: Priestly celibacy is an indispensable gift to the Church

The Church has always considered celibacy to be the most appropriate way of life for priests, the deepest reason for which is the conformity of the priestly life with the life of Christ.

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Fr. Joachim Heimerl

• Aug 22, 2025Aug 22, 2025

Did Pope Leo just warn the Amazon bishops away from heterodoxy?

Pope Leo XIV appears to have warned the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon that the glory days they may have dreamt of under Pope Francis are no more.

Analysis

Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Aug 18, 2025Aug 19, 2025

Pope Leo XIV affirms clerical celibacy, urges bishops to embody ‘holy and chaste’ Church

The Pope's comments were given to bishops and seminarians in the wake of a long-running discussion about the question of clerical celibacy in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.

News

Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Jun 26, 2025

Belgian bishops renew push for ‘women deacons,’ married priests ahead of fall Synod session

Ahead of the October session of the Synod on Synodality, the Belgian bishops have renewed their call to open Holy Orders to married men and for the creation of a female deaconate.

News

Louis Knuffke

• Feb 23, 2024Feb 23, 2024

Heterodox Amazon Synod bishop claims Church ‘cannot return’ to time before Pope Francis

‘Married priests will come first, then the diaconate for women. Women priests will be the next stage,’ Bishop Erwin Kräutler said, contradicting the infallible teaching of the Catholic faith.

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Andreas Wailzer

• Dec 5, 2023Dec 6, 2023

Synod on Synodality now discussing female deacons, married priests, and lay governance

Synod participants will now spend the next few days discussing controversial topics, after officials refused to commit that members had to uphold Church teaching in discussions.

News

Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent

• Oct 13, 2023Oct 13, 2023

Is Pope Francis’s Amazon Synod exhortation a relief or the tip of the iceberg?

The one large caveat in all this, which is presented in a way clearly intended to avoid adding fuel to already raging fires, is the ambiguity.

Opinion

Robert Royal

• Feb 13, 2020Jul 30, 2021

Two popes: Francis and the 95-year-old atheist pope of secularism

The latest tête à tête between Pope Francis and Eugenio Scalfari reveals a lot about the priorities of both.

Opinion

Fr. Robert P. Imbelli

• Jan 20, 2020Jul 30, 2021

Dutch bishop: Amazon synod puts climate change ahead of salvation of souls

Bishop Robert Mutsaerts cuts to the chase: Emphasis is on creation over Creator and not on the Eucharist or spreading the Catholic faith.

News

Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent

• Oct 24, 2019Jun 18, 2021

The long war for female Catholic priests is reaching its climax

The St. Gallen mafia’s long war to revolutionize the priesthood has now reached a decisive moment. The showdown for the soul of the priesthood is here, raging at the Amazon Synod.

Opinion

Julia Meloni

• Oct 16, 2019Jul 30, 2021

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Fr. Heimerl: Priestly celibacy is an indispensable gift to the Church

Did Pope Leo just warn the Amazon bishops away from heterodoxy?

Pope Leo XIV affirms clerical celibacy, urges bishops to embody ‘holy and chaste’ Church

Belgian bishops renew push for ‘women deacons,’ married priests ahead of fall Synod session

Heterodox Amazon Synod bishop claims Church ‘cannot return’ to time before Pope Francis

Synod on Synodality now discussing female deacons, married priests, and lay governance

Is Pope Francis’s Amazon Synod exhortation a relief or the tip of the iceberg?

Two popes: Francis and the 95-year-old atheist pope of secularism

Dutch bishop: Amazon synod puts climate change ahead of salvation of souls

The long war for female Catholic priests is reaching its climax