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Not yet ready to revise celibacy says pope

Clears up 'temporary' remark two days ago

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(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 12 - Pope Francis said Sunday he was not yet ready to revise the Catholic Church's obligation for clerical celibacy.
    On the subject of priestly celibacy, Pope Francis reiterated "I am not yet ready to review it, but obviously it is a question of discipline, which today is there and tomorrow may not be, and has nothing to do with dogma".
    The Pontiff said this in an interview with the Argentine website Perfil, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his pontificate, also relaunched by the Holy See's Vatican News portal.
    Francis thus clarified what he said two days ago in an interview with the other Argentinean site Infobae on the fact that celibacy, being "a discipline" and "a temporary prescription", could be revised. (ANSA).
   

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