Pope Francis asked to consider letting some married men act as priests

VATICAN CITY — A high-ranking Vatican official has said he is pressing the Catholic Church to consider allowing married men to act as priests in a remote region of the Amazon. Bishop Erwin Krautler, Secretary for the Commission on the Pan-Amazon Region, wants the subject on the agenda at a meeting in the Vatican in 2019, he told the Austrian news agency KNA. The proposal centers around the question of allowing faithful Catholic married men to act as priests, including […]