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Pope's path to allow married priests for Amazon straightforward, say canon lawyers | National Catholic Reporter
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Very few Catholics are suggesting clerical celibacy is abolished wholesale': Married Catholic priest on the 'rift' between the two Popes
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Retired Pope Benedict XVI is publicly defending the Catholic Church's traditional rule of priestly celibacy, the former pontiff's most explicit effort so far to influence a decision by his successor Pope Francis,
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