Meet Father Dad: How married priests would change the Catholic Church
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By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
More students in seminaries, more people in the pews, and the pitter-patter of little feet padding through the rectory.
Is that what the Catholic Church would look like if it scrapped centuries of tradition and allowed priests to be married? Or would it lead to higher costs for parishes, conservatives running for the doors, and really awkward divorces? "So we're not only paying for family expenses, college, and all of that — now we're paying alimony, too?" Catholic author Mark Shea wondered.
When Pope Francis' No. 2, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, said last week that the church's policy on celibate clergy is up for discussion, some analysts saw it as a shift in Vatican thinking.
Catholics have divergent views of what would happen if priests could accessorize their vestments with wedding rings.
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