{"id":7166,"date":"2011-03-24T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2011-03-24T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:21:27","slug":"celibacy-is-a-question-of-evangelical-radicality-says-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2011\/03\/24\/celibacy-is-a-question-of-evangelical-radicality-says-cardinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Celibacy Is A Question of Evangelical Radicality Says Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Leonardo Meira
\nedited with information from the Italian edition of L’Osservatore Romano. Translation to Portuguese by Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova News
\n<\/em>
\nCelibacy is a gift from the Lord that the priest is called to choose and \"\"<\/a>to live in fullness,” stresses the Prefect for the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, in an article written for the Thursday March 23rd edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the official journal of the Vatican. The article is entitled “Question of Evangelical Radicality.”<\/p>\n

“Celibacy is a question of evangelical radicality. Poverty, chastity and obedience are not counsels reserved exclusively to the religious. They are virtues to be lived with intense missionary passion.” He defended.<\/p>\n

Piacenza made a criticism to the objections that return and are raised against celibacy, especially that this doctrine would be a pre-conciliar residue and a mere ecclesiastical law. The Cardinal explains that not one of these have a real foundation in the documents of the Vatican II Council, nor in the pontifical magisterium. The examination of the texts explains a radical continuity between the magisterium before and after the Council.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0papal\u00a0teaching\u00a0for decades\u00a0agreed\u00a0on founding celibacy\u00a0on the\u00a0theological reality\u00a0of the ministerial priesthood, on\u00a0the ontological\u00a0and\u00a0sacramental\u00a0configuration\u00a0to the Lord\u00a0on\u00a0his participation\u00a0in the only priesthood\u00a0and on the imitatio \u00a0Christi<\/em> that\u00a0this implies.” he said explaining that mistaken interpretations could lead to seeing celibacy as a residue of the past from which one is liberated.<\/p>\n

The cardinal\u00a0also notes that\u00a0the\u00a0papal teaching\u00a0encourages overcoming the\u00a0reduction\u00a0of celibacy as merely\u00a0ecclesiastical law. “In fact, it is lay only because it is a demand intrinsic to priesthood and of the configuration to Christ that the Sacrament of Orders determines. In this sense, the formation to celibacy, beyond all human and spiritual aspects, should include a solid doctrinal dimension, because one cannot live this without understanding the reason,” he taught.<\/p>\n

Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n

Piacenza said that the debate on celibacy does not favor the serenity of young generations in understanding the gift so determined of the sacerdotal life.<\/p>\n

“I realize, obviously, that in a secularized world, it is always more difficult to comprehend the reasons for celibacy. I believe, to this respect, that the motivated support to celibacy and its adequate appreciation in the Church and in the world could represent some of the efficient ways to overcome \u00a0secularization.”<\/p>\n

The\u00a0prefect of the Congregation\u00a0which\u00a0justify\u00a0the theological roots\u00a0of celibacy encounter themselves in the new\u00a0identity that\u00a0is\u00a0given\u00a0to that\u00a0which\u00a0is conceded \u00a0to the\u00a0Sacrament\u00a0of\u00a0Orders.\u00a0“The\u00a0centrality\u00a0of the ontological dimension and\u00a0the consequent\u00a0structural\u00a0and\u00a0sacramental\u00a0Eucharistic dimension\u00a0of\u00a0the priesthood\u00a0represent the\u00a0areas\u00a0of\u00a0understanding, development\u00a0and\u00a0existential\u00a0faithfulness\u00a0to celibacy.\u00a0The question,therefore,\u00a0concerns the\u00a0quality\u00a0of faith.\u00a0A community\u00a0that does not have celibacy in high esteem, which anticipates the Kingdom\u00a0or\u00a0that Eucharistic tension would be able to live?\u00a0” he asks.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Cardinal said that it is not possible to allow conditioning or intimidation by whomever does not comprehend celibacy and would like to modify the discipline of the Church in this question, opening cracks. “On the contrary, we should recuperate the conscience motivation which our celibacy challenges the mentality of the world, putting in crisis its secularism and its agnosticism and screaming in the centuries that God exists and is present,” he concluded.<\/p>\n

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by Leonardo Meira edited with information from the Italian edition of L’Osservatore Romano. Translation to Portuguese by Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova News Celibacy is a gift from the Lord that the priest is called to choose and to live in fullness,” stresses…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15271,25556],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7172,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/7172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}