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• W4313199571 abstract "Reviewed by: Married Priests in the Catholic Church ed. by Adam A. J. DeVille Richard Price Adam A. J. DeVille, ed. Married Priests in the Catholic Church. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. 376 pp. The collection of essays Married Priests in the Catholic Church is a study and defense of married clergy within the Catholic Church, most notably in the churches of the Eastern Rite under Roman jurisdiction, particularly in North America. It does not directly address the current debate over celibacy in the mainstream Roman Church, but, as editor Adam A. J. DeVille’s preface makes plain, it is intended to assist in a more informed debate over this issue. The first chapter, by David G. Hunter, who is currently writing a new history of celibacy in the Catholic Church, treats the question of whether the Western rule of clerical continence (forbidding sexual relations between a priest and his wife) goes back to the apostles or only to the end of the fourth century. Hunter argues persuasively for the latter position. But he fails to point out that, even if the rule of clerical continence was ancient, this would not imply the same for clerical celibacy—the restriction of priestly ordination to unmarried men—which dates only to early in the second millennium and cannot, with this long gap between the two, be treated as the natural and inevitable consequence of the earlier restriction. Chapter after chapter in this book cites recent utterances from the Vatican insisting that clerical celibacy goes back to the origins of the church, but this claim is simply untrue. Historical questions arise in later chapters, as in the one by Patrick Viscuso, which points out rightly that the ban in Byzantine canon law on a priest entering into a second marriage did not arise from some rule of perpetual continence having been imposed at any stage on the clergy, but from a conviction (surely an unhappy one) that second marriages, even after the death of the first spouse, were a concession to weakness of the flesh—tolerable in the laity but scandalous in the clergy. But the historical fact that comes up again and again in this book is the wound that was inflicted on Eastern Rite Catholics in the Western world by the rule imposed by the Vatican early in the twentieth century (when families of Catholics first became numerous in the West) that outside their original home territories their clergy had to be celibate, in order not to scandalize Catholics of the Western Rite. This rule was not always enforced, but (as is set out in a piece by Alexander M. Laschuk) it was only in 2014 that Pope Francis issued a decree formally rescinding it, save where Eastern Catholics lack their own superiors and are under the jurisdiction of the local Western Rite bishop. Equally offensive to Christians of the Eastern Rite is the claim made in recent decades, above all by popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, that there is an “ontological” link between priesthood and celibacy, and that therefore a married priest is an imperfect priest. The argument is that a priest is an alter Christus and must follow the celibacy of his model. A powerfully argued piece in this book by Lawrence Cross and Basilio Petrà, and a concluding chapter by the editor show how the very high value attached by Catholicism to marriage as a channel for the communication of Christ’s love to our fellow Christians and as itself a mode of sacrifice rules out the notion that marriage and priesthood pull against each other. Occasional reference is made in this book to Saint Paul’s statement that a “right to take along a believing wife” was enjoyed and exercised by “the other apostles” (1 Cor 9:5): it was married men whom Christ chose to be his closest disciples and representatives. The notion of the perfect priest as someone who lives only and solely for his flock and enjoys a God-given insight into all their needs without himself sharing them is, surely, a beautiful ideal that fails to engage with reality, for it states as the norm something that..." @default.
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