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How many priests have left the priesthood over the issue of celibacy?
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∙ 15y ago
This would be a difficult statistic to produce since the Catholic Church has held celibacy as part of its priestly discipline, at least in the Latin Rite, for centuries upon centuries. Rarely do priests leave for any single reason, and even if a priest were to leave concerning this issue he might have masked it with another issue such as a concern regarding doctrine or personal matters as he might feel embarrassed to admit it was over celibacy. Regardless, there is no statistic available for this particular issue of discipline. It is worth noting in a related vein that there was a statistically significant number of priests that left the priesthood and became married in the wake of Vatican II. Their decision to leave was not so much a protest to the discipline - as they wished to be laicized with the freedoms and message of the Council as interpreted by them - however it does show there was the presence of this desire to marry in some priests.
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