Pope Francis said Sunday he was not
yet ready to revise the Catholic Church's obligation for
clerical celibacy.
On the subject of priestly celibacy, Pope Francis reiterated "I
am not yet ready to review it, but obviously it is a question of
discipline, which today is there and tomorrow may not be, and
has nothing to do with dogma".
The Pontiff said this in an interview with the Argentine website
Perfil, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his
pontificate, also relaunched by the Holy See's Vatican News
portal.
Francis thus clarified what he said two days ago in an interview
with the other Argentinean site Infobae on the fact that
celibacy, being "a discipline" and "a temporary prescription",
could be revised.
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