Posts Tagged ‘Xingu’

Pope says married men could be ordained as priests if bishops agree

Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

Pope Francis has discussed the possibility of ordaining proven married men as priests, a South American bishop says. Bishop Erwin Krautler, whose diocese of Xingu is in the Brazilian rainforest, spoke with Pope Francis on April 4 in a rare private interview. The desperate shortage of priests in the bishop’s huge diocese was one of Read more