“I was shocked they had a term for it.”Īrchbishop Jurkovic declined a request for an interview. Doyle recalled Archbishop Jurkovic having said. “You’re actually called ‘children of the ordained,’” Mr. He said he was first shown the Vatican guidelines in October 2017 by Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the Vatican’s envoy to the United Nations in Geneva. Doyle said his support group website, Coping International, has 50,000 users in 175 countries. There are no estimates of how many such children exist. Luther wrote mockingly that the pope had as much command over celibacy as “the natural movement of the bowels.” Rodrigo Borgia, while a priest, had four children with his mistress before he became Pope Alexander VI, an excess that helped spur Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation. The tradition of celibacy among Roman Catholic clergy was broadly codified in the 12th century, but not necessarily adhered to, even in the highest places. There are some, exceedingly rare, high-profile cases, but the overwhelming majority remain out of the public eye. The children are sometimes the result of affairs involving priests and laywomen or nuns - others of abuse or rape. Doyle’s draw uncomfortable attention to the violation of celibacy by priests and, for some former clerics and liberals inside the church, raise the issue of whether it is time to make the requirement optional, as it is in other Christian churches.
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