Topic - Benedict

He insisted that celibacy wouldn’t be scrapped altogether but said he sees a “question mark” over “whether it should be taken as a basic precondition for every priest.” Also that year, Marx apologized for discrimination against gay people by the church.

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I, for the moment, do not have that on my agenda,” he said, according to closed-door comments with the Jesuit community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in February 2023, which were reported by the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica.

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