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Even now, following the tradition of Orthodoxy, Eastern-rite Catholic priests are allowed to marry before ordination (except in the U.S. and Canada, where Latin-rite Catholic bishops have until now opposed the idea as "giving rise to scandal"). Pope Paul and his two predecessors gave dispensations to a handful of convert Protestant ministers who were ordained in Europe as priests, even though they already had wives and children. Last month the Archbishop of Mariana in Brazil presided at the marriage of Pedro Maciel Vidigal, a former priest who was released from his vows by the Vatican...
...Celibacy Outdated?, by the German lay theologian Ida Gorres (Newman, 950); The Priest: Celibate or Married, by Pierre Hermand, a former French Dominican who was laicized by the Vatican at his own request (Helicon, $3.75); Priestly Celibacy and Maturity, by the Rev. David O'Neill of New Zealand (Sheed & Ward...
...despair is the nth term in a series of miseries. He is born poor. He loses his mother when he is nine. He hates his father, a foul-mouthed brute who wallops his children by day and molests them by night. He dreads his visits to the priest, a hemi-homosexual who lies down beside him in bed and talks about the boy's soul while he strokes his body...
...light of a single fluttering candle, a tall solemn priest sits bowed above a resplendent manuscript in his solitary scriptorium. On the table before him lie vials of red and blue and purple inks, pots of honey-colored glue, sheets of gold leaf, and reams of creamy antique vellum glowing golden in the candlelight. Only the scratching of a quill interrupts the rich religious silence as the priest pursues his labor of love...
...happens, the labor of love is a forgery. As it further happens, the forgery is historical fact: in the 18th century a priest named Giuseppe Vella actually perpetrated a fraudulent history of Sicily under Norman rule and briefly imposed his imposture on the credulous court of Naples. In this shrewd, satiric novel about Vella and his villainy, Sicily's Leonardo Sciascia hilariously spoofs impostors and imposture and etches a bitter likeness of sunny Sicily's decadent nobility...