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...away. Last month a group of Italian priests petitioned the Pope to relieve them from the celibacy obligation, arguing that it was an "intolerable burden" and that the rule had no basis in either Scripture or natural law. A similar petition was recently sent to Rome by 33 Brazilian priests, who claimed that they had the support of "hundreds and hundreds" of their fellow clerics. Theologians have continued to speculate on the problem, and within recent months Roman Catholic publishers in the U.S. have put out three books dealing critically with priestly celibacy...
...married. Rome's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the Holy Office, has on file at least 10,000 applications from priests asking to be released from their vows. At the fourth session of the council, Latin American bishops privately circulated a survey of 1,000 Brazilian priests, indicating that a majority were unhappy about their unmarried state. Another Latin American survey suggested that many priests who found celibacy no problem were either emotionally immature or latent homosexuals...
Naturally, few sane Brazilian politicians dreamed of going to elections in Modebras, and so many tried to jump into the Arena that Castello Branco had to appeal to their public patriotism to get an opposition party...
...there were complications. Castello Branco, who is honest and, for a general, fairly liberal, shares control of the Brazilian army with his hard-lining, hard-living war minister, General Artur Costa e Silva. The two men have never quarreled in public, but they have seldom agreed in private, and when Costa e Silva announced his candidacy for this year's presidential elections, eyebrows went up all over Brazil. At first there was speculation that Costa e Silva, who neither understands nor sympathizes with the government's attempts to stabilize the economy, might run as candidate for the opposition...
...That, of course, put Castello Branco in a fix. He had already declared himself out of the running, and so he began to look around for a presidential candidate who would continue the economic reforms that Costa e Silva resists. Now there was a new twist that only a Brazilian could properly savor: the President himself recruiting a candidate to run against his own government party. Not only that, but since Castello Branco has already decreed that the President is to be elected by Congress instead of by popular vote, and since Castello Branco controls Congress, he could presumably defeat...