Ruling would ease priest shortage
Pope hints at celibacy change
VATICAN CITY (UPI)—Pope Paul VI hinted Tuesday he might reluctantly consider the first limited change in the Roman Catholic Church's law on priestly celibacy since its enactment 900 years ago.
The change would allow married men of mature years with good family and professional reputation to become priests in areas of the world where there are extreme shortages of priests.
At the same time, the Pope ordered Roman Catholic bishops of the Netherlands to reconsider proposals for wider changes in the celibacy law that have brought the worldwide controversy over the subject to a boil in recent weeks.
The Pope outlined his position in a 2,000-word letter to French Cardinal Jean Villot, the papal secretary of state.
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CLEVELAND (UPI)—A teeteral grand jury Tuesday delved into the financial records of a United Mine Workers (UMW) local in Tennessee where slain UMW official Joseph A. "Jock" Yablonski contended the union illegally spent $3.7 million.
He expressed doubts that such a change, if adopted, could in practice be restricted to local cases.
areas an exception to the law, as is the ordination of former protestant ministers, rather than an actual amendment.
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Grand jury subpoenas mine records
The grand jury, investigating the fatal shooting of Yablonski, his wife and daughter, subpoenaed the records of UMW Local 3228, located in Lafollette, Tenn.
Local 3228 is part of UMW District 19, where Yablonski contended the union's leadership spent $3.7 million over a five-year period to remain in power.
The pontiff expressed "grave reservations" about the possibility of ordaining married men for areas where there are shortages of priests and said it could only be done, if at all, by bishops of the world acting in union with him—presumably at a synod of bishops.
Msgr. Fausto Vallaic, the Vatican press spokesman, said he believed the Pope was referring primarily to Latin America in raising the possibility of ordaining married men for certain areas. "Above all this possibility does not concern Holland," he said.
said discussion on it was closed. His language Tuesday suggested he would regard ordination of some married men for restricted
They were Sollius Huddleston, 61, president of Local 3228 and father-in-law of Paul Gilly, 36, Cleveland; David E. Brandenburg, secretary-treasurer, and Guy Swindle, 65, the local's recording secretary.
Three officers of the local, including the father-in-law of one of three men indicted by the grand jury on a charge of conspiring to murder Yablonski, testified before the grand jury Tuesday.
His hint of willingness to consider this change was expressed in extremely cautious language, and he did not indicate that any immediate consideration was likely.
The personal financial records of the three men also were subpoenaed.
Even so, observers said it was the first time in centuries a pope has even hinted that some married men might be acceptable as priests—other than the handful of former Protestant ministers who have converted to Catholicism and been ordained with papal consent.
Gilly, Claude E. Vealey, 26,
and Aubran W. Martin, 21, all of
Cleveland, pleaded innocent
Monday to federal charges of
conspiring to kill Yablonski
to keep him from testifying about
District 19.
Only Sunday the Pope strongly defended the celibacy law and
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