The book’s publication is evidence of the divisions that exist within the church. The book is particularly notable: it is co-authored by Cardinal Robert Sarah and the former pope, Benedict XVI, who since his resignation in 2013 has avoided public intervention in the time of his successor, Pope Francis (Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Benedict’s secretary, has since asked that Benedict’s name and signature be removed from the book). In response to such rumblings, a new book sets out a vigorous defence of priestly celibacy against the “fashionable errors” of its detractors. But this age-old practice is now under fire, with the suggestion that the rules should be relaxed for the Latin American Catholic church. For almost a thousand years, Roman Catholic priests have been required to be celibate.
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