Pope Francis Preparing To ‘Test Market’ Of Ordaining Married Catholic Priests And Letting Women Become ‘Ministers’ In The Amazon

A document for a meeting of Catholic bishops from the Amazon, expected to evaluate ordaining elderly married men as priests for the vast region, says the Church should make “daring proposals”.

“And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.” Revelation 17:18 (KJV)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Pope Francis has repeatedly stated that the Catholic Church is a woman, and in this the Bible is in complete agreement. Revelation 17 calls her a ‘harlot’, a ‘mystery’, and ‘babylon’, chapter 18 tells us how God will destroy her in the time of Jacob’s trouble. In fact, Catholicism centers around goddess worship, and not Jesus Christ. The Catholic rosary is comprised of ten ‘Hail Marys‘ to every one ‘Our Father’.  Official Vatican teaching makes Mary a sinless human being, something that only Jesus Christ ever was. Official Vatican teaching says that Mary is  ‘the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix’. The Amazon will be the Vatican proving ground for married priests and women ministers. 

A preparatory document released on Friday also says the meeting, known as a synod, taking place in October 2019, should consider conferring on women in the area some “type of official ministry”. The comments were made during the presentation of the preparatory document for the summit of bishops next year focusing on the Pan-Amazon region and its peoples, called “Amazonia: New paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology.”

The synod will include bishops and other representatives from the nine countries of the Amazon basin and other groups, including indigenous peoples. The document re-states Pope Francis’ calls to protect the Amazon from business and consumer greed, saying the region and its natural habitat were vital for the planet.

It calls for a solution to the problem of a lack of priests to say Mass for the people in the area of more than three million square miles.

“One of the main points to be heard is the cry of thousands of communities deprived of the Sunday Eucharist for long periods of time,” the document says. Only priests can say Mass. The document calls for a “process of discernment” within the Church to respond to the “concrete realities of the Amazonian people”.

It says the Church presence in the Amazon basin “has been spread precariously thin” because of the vast territory and its cultural diversity.

The synod is expected to discuss the possibility of ordaining “viri probati” – Latin for men of proven character – to deal with the shortage of priests. Such men would be elderly, outstanding members of the local Catholic community and with grown-up families.

Pope Francis, in an interview with a German newspaper last year, said he was willing to consider ordaining older married men as priests in isolated communities, but has ruled out making celibacy optional to tackle a shortage of clergy.

“We have to give a thought to whether ‘viri probati’ are a possibility. We then also need to determine which tasks they could take on, such as in isolated areas,” he was quoted as saying.

He ruled out opening the priesthood to all married men or watering down the Catholic Church’s commitment to celibacy, seen as a virtue that frees priests to devote their lives fully to serve God.

The preparatory document also says that, given the size of the region: “It is necessary to identify the type of official ministry that can be conferred on women, taking into account the central role which women play today in the Amazonian Church.”

The document did not elaborate. It ended with a 30-point questionnaire in which members of the Church in the Amazon were invited to give their opinion of the main challenges facing the area. (Reporting By Philip Pullella; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

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