My Spanish is a bit shaky and I may have misinterpreted his words so here is a machine translation of Il Papa Francesco's conversation with Argentina's Infoebae, March 10:
Pope Francis opined about Nicaragua: "It's like the communist or Hitler dictatorships, rude"
In an extensive interview with Infobae, the Supreme Pontiff referred to the possibility of a regime change in Venezuela and spoke about an "imbalance" of Daniel Ortega. He also spoke about the drama of drug trafficking in Latin America, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, his daily customs and even "machismo in the Vatican."
The mere entrance of Pope Francis to the meeting room of the Santa Marta Residence , in the Vatican , refutes the speculation about his health: he walks normally, even briskly. He will then talk about the circumstances that forced him to use a wheelchair until recently, with the same naturalness with which he will address all the issues that are presented to him in this interview, without avoiding any.
Also of the resistance he faced when promoting changes in the church , of his habit of writing by hand, of market capitalism, of his desire to visit Argentina despite the difficulties. Of everything.....
From Russia 's criminal invasion of Ukraine to celibacy and divorce .
From "the guarango dictatorships" in Latin America to death and the possibility of seeing it arrive.****Interviewer: I told him that it was the last of something theological or linked to the church and I was wrong, I did not lie to him. But in these times there is talk, and I don't know the numbers, that there are not so many vocations. Or maybe yes and they do not transcend. But regardless of that, in the event that celibacy is not mandatory —not that celibacy disappears, that it is not mandatory— do you imagine that the existence of priests with the possibility of being married, as there are in other churches, could help to that more people join the priesthood?Pope Francis: I don't think so. In fact, in the Catholic Church there are married priests : the entire Eastern rite is married. All. All the eastern rite. Here in the Curia we have one —just today I came across it— that his wife has, his son. There is no contradiction for a priest to get married. Celibacy in the Western church is a temporary prescription: I don't know if it is resolved one way or another, but it is provisional in this sense; it is not eternal like priestly ordination, which is forever, whether you like it or not. Whether you leave or not is another matter, but it is forever. Instead celibacy is a discipline.
Interviewer: "So it could be reviewed."
Pope Francis: Yeah. Yes. In fact all of the Eastern Church are married. Or those who want. There they make a choice. Before ordination the option to marry or to be celibate....
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Hmmm....The Pope didn't exactly say transitory, just that the no-boinking rule is temporary in the sense that it is not eternal.
I wonder if Jerome of the Fed, and the Team Transitory disciples who joined him, actually said that inflation is not eternal but the point got lost in translation?
Sic transit gloria mundi.
