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| Greek priest and his wife. |
http://orthocath.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/rome-to-us-eastern-catholics-new-priests-should-embrace-celibacy/
The reasoning is the "norm" in the USA is celibacy in the priesthood. I truly don't see this encouragement being any different from St. Paul's "encouragement" in 1 Corinthians 7:7-8 -
7 For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that.8 But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.
Again, this is not a world-wide statement from the Vatican, but directed toward priestly candidates in the United States among Eastern Catholics - because it is the norm in the USA among Catholics. Certainly there have been exceptions to the "rule" - and sometimes methinks the East protesteth too much.
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