As you know, the Pope had a meeting yesterday with the heads of Curial dicasteries, inspired, apparently, by the Milingo situation. The official account of the meeting:

This morning, Nov. 16, in the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father presided over one of the periodic meetings of the Heads of Dicasteries of the Roman Curia, for a common reflection.

The participants in the meeting received detailed information about the requests for dispensation from the obligation of celibacy received in recent years, as well as the possibility of readmission to the exercise of ministry from priests who at present find themselves in the conditions prescribed by the Church.

The value of the choice of priestly celibacy according to Catholic tradition was reaffirmed, and the exigency of a solid human and Christian formation was underlined, both for seminarians and for priests already ordained.

A rather neutral statement, if you think about. One that could have come out of, say, a gathering of Eastern Rite-only bishops, who would, indeed "reaffirm" the "value of the choice of priestly celibacy."

Jimmy Akin has a fair and complete treatment of the subject.

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