Celibacy dispensations
In the Latin Church, celibacy dispensation is the exemption of a man from the priests' obligation to be celibate ( celibacy ). Such a dispensation is reserved for the Pope and is currently only granted under two - very different - conditions.
Firstly, it can be granted to an ordained priest at his request in the course of the so-called laization . This priest married after his ordination and was then released from all offices and functions by his bishop . Not only may he no longer exercise priestly services ( see, however, Character indelebilis ), but also not be employed in any non-priestly service or honorary office until, after a mostly long-term procedure, if he so wishes and requests it, a laicization can come about. This is linked to the dispensation for church marriage and for taking on non-priestly professions and honorary offices in the church - but not for returning to the priestly service. Laization in Italy received a special meaning through the Lateran Treaties , since without laization former priests could not get a job in the public service.
Second, a married man can be given a celibacy dispensation prior to ordination so that he can be ordained a priest without taking the promise of celibacy and without compromising his married life. This dispensation can only be requested by the responsible bishop, and it is currently granted almost exclusively to clergymen who have converted from non-Catholic churches . This happened for the first time for the Mainz Protestant pastor Rudolf Goethe , who in 1951 with the celibacy dispensation of Pius XII. was ordained a priest. The conditions and duration of the procedure have changed several times since then.
A specialty is the Czech priest Jan Kofroň , who in May 2008 was granted the celibacy dispensation for a sub conditione ordination ( i.e. in the event that his first ordination would have been invalid). Kofroň was ordained a priest in the Czech underground church in August 1988 during the communist regime . After the fall of communism, consecrated married priests were offered conversion to the Greek Catholic Church in the underground . Kofroň refused the transfer.
Currently, there are usually several years between the episcopal application and the Roman dispensation. There are no reliable sources of numbers and names. After the conflict over women's ordination in the Anglican community in 1993, during the pontificate of John Paul II, around 200 former clergymen of the Church of England converted to celibacy dispensations.
Examples of priests ordained with celibacy dispensaries
- 1951: Rudolf Goethe
- 1973: Otto P. Franzmann
- 1995: Peter Gerloff
- 2003: Robert Ploß
- 2004: Peter Moskopf
- 2005: Patrick Balland
- 2006: Stefan Thiel
- 2007: Gerhard Stille
- June 15, 2007: Gerhard Höberth
- June 30, 2007: Hans-Tilman Golde
- May 12, 2008: Jan Kofron
- July 6, 2010: Peter Kemmether
- January 15, 2011: Keith Newton
- February 22, 2011: Harm Klueting
- May 26, 2012: Hans Janßen
- October 28, 2018 André Schneider
- October 28, 2018 Andreas Theurer
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIC 1047 §2 3 °
- ↑ a b Church In 07/2008, p. 9.
- ↑ a b Wiener Zeitung of June 12, 2008: Priestly ordination for married men
- ↑ Married priests: Turning to celibacy? Die Presse , September 14, 2005, accessed September 9, 2008
- ↑ Time Magazine of December 31, 1951 (Engl.)
- ↑ https://bistumlimburg.de/beitrag/rheingau-pfarrer-ir-otto-franzmann-gestorben/
- ↑ Bishop Dr. Gerhard Ludwig Müller ordained five deacons as priests ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Gerd Felder: Catholic priests with wife, child and blessing of the Pope . In: WAZ, August 19, 2008.
- ↑ Swiss father is ordained a priest in Belgium ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://kath.net/news/13484
- ↑ https://taz.de/!277590/
- ↑ Markus Rohrhofer: There are Catholic priests with official wives and children . The Standard , June 28, 2007
- ↑ Markus Rohrhofer: wrong ways to ordination . Der Standard, June 30th / April 1st July 2007
- ↑ Married man ordained a Catholic priest
- ^ SZ, July 7, 2010
- ↑ Meisner ordains father as a priest ( memento from February 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost of May 25, 2012: With papal blessing: Catholic priests can be married , accessed on May 26, 2012
- ↑ He is married with four children - and becomes a Catholic priest , Augsburger Allgemeine October 26, 2018
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