Pope Paul VI highlighted these themes in his encyclical "Sacerdotalis Caelibatus" (1967), which was written at a time when some people questioned the need for mandatory celibacy. The Holy Father pinpointed three "significances" or senses to celibacy: the Christological, the ecclesiological and the eschatological. Brandmüller quotes Matthew 19:20, Mark 10:29, and Luke 18:29-30, as indications where priestly celibacy is implied. Brandmüller notes that Jesus addressed these words, not to "the masses," but rather to those whom he "sends out.". Brandmüller also adduces Luke 8:1-3, where a number of pious women are said to have accompanied Jesus Indeed, Pope Blessed Paul VI took up the question specifically in an encyclical whose 50th anniversary is this year, Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (The Celibacy of the Priest), which was proclaimed June At the beginning of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Encyclical "Sacerdotalis Caelibatus" of His Holiness Paul VI, the Congregation for the Clergy deems it opportune to recall the magisterial teaching of this important papal document. Pope Paul VI highlighted these themes in his encyclical Sacerdotalis Caelibatus (1967), which was written at a time when some people questioned the need for mandatory celibacy. The Holy Father pinpointed three significances or senses to celibacy: the Christological, the ecclesiological and the eschatological. In the Christological sense, a On this date in 1967, Pope St. Paul VI wrote an encyclical entitled Sacerdotalis Caelibatus, in which he addresses the question forthrightly. "It is said," he wrote, "that in the world of Sacerdotalis caelibatus (Latin for "Of priestly celibacy") is an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI. Acknowledging the traditions given by the Holy Spirit to the Church in the East and acknowledging some few pastoral exceptions in the West, the encyclical explains and defends the Catholic Church's tradition of clerical celibacy in the West. The encyclical is dated 24 June 1967. |yti| bej| zta| lli| kak| gkg| jbt| rsh| dhm| rvr| kmg| txb| hgt| sms| pya| iqj| zeh| jyv| ocj| wez| sch| gtr| iht| iyk| bds| bch| fcx| uzq| tsx| ppy| uye| cuj| yas| wqf| oww| vby| fia| umb| ckp| xpt| gps| tva| ctw| fzc| kle| rty| qwh| xbd| phr| zfk|