PRIESTS WANT DEBATE ON CELIBACY RULE.(News)

From: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) | Date: May 4, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Kevin Eigelbach Post staff reporter

A majority of local priests who responded to a survey want an open debate on the rule of celibacy for priests in the Roman Catholic Church.

Friends of Call to Action of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky recently sent the surveys to all priests in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Diocese of Covington.

It was part of a national effort by Call to Action USA and other Catholic lay groups to find out how priests feel about the celibacy issue.

Thirty-four percent of the 544 priests in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati ...

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