PRIESTS’ CELIBACY

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31329, 28 March 1967, Page 16

PRIESTS’ CELIBACY

Support For Change (N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) NEW YORK, Mar. 23. Nine prominent Roman Catholic scholars have lent their names to a new unofficial Roman Catholic organisation seeking a change in canon law to permit priests to marry, writes Edward Fiske, of the “New York Times.” Fiske wrote: The organisation, known as the National Association for Pastoral Renewal, was formed at a meeting last November by 23 Roman Catholic priests from dioceses throughout the country. The priests drafted a specific proposal for modifying the 800-year-old requirement that priests be celibate. Last month they began interviewing priests on their views. An officer of the association said that the purpose of the survey was to demonstrate that there was widespread support for a change among clergymen and to convince the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to “begin serious discussion of the celibacy problem.”

20,000 Dollars for Bull.—A Queensland cattle company paid 20,000 dollars for a poll Hereford bull at today’s stud sales at the Royal Easter show.—Sydney, March 21.