Word: aloisio
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...bishops that Pope John Paul II has forbidden even discussion of the possibility of a married clergy. But a few bishops and interested observers suggested obliquely that the whole issue of matrimony and holy orders still needed airing. The subject got new life two weeks ago, when Brazil's Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider disclosed that the Pope had permitted two married men to be ordained in remote regions of Brazil, where the shortage of priests is severe. (The priests had to promise to renounce sexual relations.) The bishops appeared to be unmoved. Rather than an end to celibacy, as one European...