1. Although Haggett argues that the priest shortage constitutes an emergency that allows married priests to perform sacramental rites, church officials disagree. 2. But his call came amid increasing evidence of broken celibacy vows and the unprecedented reception into the Roman Catholic Church in England of married former Anglican priests. 3. But it has made an exception to this rule by permitting the ordination into the Catholic Church of married Episcopal priests. 4. But many Eastern Catholic priests are allowed to marry, and married Episcopal priests who convert to Roman Catholicism are allowed to remain married as Catholic priests. 5. Haggett is founder of Celibacy Is the Issue and runs a married priest referral service called Rent-A-Priest. 6. He welcomed into the Catholic Church married Episcopal priests who were disillusioned with their own faith. 7. Ingalls says there are at least five other married priests in the parish. 8. Likewise, the church does not recognize marriages performed by married priests. 9. Many married priests are laicized, which means their religious vows are annulled. 10. McCabe, for example, said that several of his friends from the priesthood left the church to become married Episcopalian priests. |