The Catholic Church, which is currently led by Pope Francis, has required all priests and nuns to accept a vow of celibacy.
Clerical celibacy is the discipline within the Catholic Church by which only unmarried men are ordained to the episcopate, to the priesthood in the Latin Church (with some particular exception and in some autonomous particular Churches), and similarly to the diaconate. In other autonomous particular churches, the discipline applies only to the episcopate.
In 2019 the Synod of Bishops – an advisory body of the Church – voted to allow priests in remote areas of the Amazon rainforest to marry.
Senior Vatican official makes case for a married priesthood https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/senior-vatican-official-makes-case…
Priests should be allowed to get married, says top Vatican official
- Archbishop Charles Scicluna, who leads Malta’s Catholic Church, said the church was losing people because of its strict celibacy rules
- Scicluna said the Catholic Church had allowed priests to marry until the 12th century, and said he would like the Vatican to revert to that position
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3247597/priests-should-b…
Pope Francis approves blessings for same-sex couples in certain conditions, in landmark move to welcome LGBTQ Catholics
- Since his 2013 election, Francis tried to make the 1.3 billion-member Church more welcoming to LGBT people without changing moral doctrine on same-sex activity
- The Church teaches that same-sex attraction is not sinful but homosexual acts are
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3245512/pope-francis-app…