Beyond Priests : The Future of Ministry in the Catholic Church
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Former Catholic priest rejects celibacy and the all-male priesthood, offering the unexplored history of the clerical priestly vocation and presenting a model for radially reforming its structureone that is inclusive of women and married male priests.
Beyond Priests contends that the requirements of the clerical priesthood of the Catholic Churchthat all priests must be male, and that all priests must be celibateis a gross distortion of scripture and the churchs early history that must be changed. While the roots of the modern priesthood go back to the fourth century and even more remotely to the presbyters or elders who advised local bishops in the early church, the contemporary priestly model is very much the product of seventeenth-century French reformers acting to apply a 1563 decree on the priesthood of the Council of Trent. The present-day priestly model has increasingly become harmful, even toxic, not only to priests themselves, but to the ministry and the Catholic community. Based on the historical analysis, Beyond Priests outlines a whole new way of approaching ministry and leadership that is in tune with contemporary needs, is inclusive of women and men, and is more authentically derived from the New Testament and the early church.
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