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Former Pope warns against relaxing priestly celibacy rules in new book
short by Sakshita Khosla / on Monday, 13 January, 2020
Former Pope Benedict has spoken against allowing married men to become priests in a new book. The book urges Catholic church not to be swayed by "bad pleas, theatrics, diabolical lies and fashionable errors that want to devalue priestly celibacy". This comes after Pope Francis agreed to consider a request from some bishops to allow married men to become ordained.
read more at The Guardian