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DISHONESTY AROUND CUMPULSORY CELIBACY
Dear Editor
A bishop, not a leak, revealed the vote not to discuss married secular clergy. Dishonesty around compulsory celibacy (uniquely a secular clergy issue) is now a quagmire. The cardinal’s dismissive ‘not a pressing issue’ was arrogant. Yet again marriage is trivialised by clerics, despite its being an inalienable right, a boon and a source of growth greater than those years of prolonged seminary immaturity. The same ca
29 January 2016, The Tablet
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