We all know one of the requirements of becoming a Roman Catholic priest is living a chaste life and staying unmarried for the rest of your life.
Well, this mantra is about to change as some Catholic bishops have agreed to allow married men to be ordained as priest in the Amazon region.
According to CNN report the proposal must be approved by Pope Francis before it could stand. This according to the same media, would be a big and significant change to the church’s age long traditions where only unmarried men are ordained as priests.
The Amazon region covers areas such as some parts of Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Columbia, French Guiana.
The proposal has tagged viri probati which refers to older Catholic men who have stable families, are respected in their communities, and already deacons in their respective churches.
It should, however, be noted that the new policy is not the same thing as allowing men who are already priests to marry. The Pope’s approval must be given before the new policy takes effect, a thing the head of the Catholic church said he hopes to give response to before the end of 2019.
