It is not true of married clergy that they are thereby unable to love many people deeply.

Married clergy were not uncommon prior to the Gregorian reform.

Many of them were against the married clergy.

An archdeacon may come from either the monastic or married clergy.

There are strong arguments for a married clergy.

"The second thing on their minds is married clergy," Father Phan said.

Cranmer was also one of the first married clergy, putting him 450 years ahead of the current debate.

If celibacy is the problem, why are most mainline churches with married clergy facing the same situation?

The council left it to the discretion of the married clergy to continue or discontinue their marital relations.

Cell B comprises a group of seven (three married clergy couples and one single woman deacon).

Later there was a monastery at Westbury, probably initially a secular one, with married clergy.

Other questions concerned the possibility of bringing in missionary priests and of having married clergy.

It denounced those who advocated a married clergy.

"It's not a panacea that you have married clergy or women clergy," he said.

"They have been asking for the possibility of married clergy because in Asia the number of priests is small.

The inner rason is also worn by chanters, readers, and the married clergy.

We've had a married clergy since Day 1, and the question is whether that needs to be revisited and expanded."

Married clergy are exempted from the obligatory celibacy of the Catholic priesthood.

"If people keep letting their sons become priests, it will slow down the change to married clergy and woman priests."

Anglican and Protestant churches have married clergy and some allow women to be ordained.

I would permit a married clergy.

During the paschal season both monastic and married clergy will often wear a white inner cassock.

A married clergy would appear not to be an issue for Ukrainian Catholics since their priests are permitted to marry.

"The fact that the Protestant and Orthodox churches welcome married clergy is certainly a large part of why we don't have a shortage.