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Dear Friends,

I am supporting FutureChurch's Optional Celibacy: So All Can Be At the Table initiative.  I hope you will join the rising tide of faithful Catholics worldwide in asking for both married and celibate priests in the Roman Catholic Church.

Please take a minute to send a postcard and show your support as well.

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Go to http://www.futurechurch.org/fpm/optionalcelibacy/ for more information about this project. The thumbnail version is below.

FutureChurch is asking you to send a postcard to Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, Prefect Congregation for the Clergy, with copies to the Priestly Life and Ministry Committee at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Pope Benedict and your local bishop.

The postcard requests that the Congregation for the Clergy begin "discussion at the highest levels of the Church about the need to return to our earliest tradition of permitting both a married and celibate clergy."
 
It also expresses your concern about the vitality and future of the Church in North America Europe when so many healthy parishes are being closed because of the priest shortage.  A recent Pew study found that four times as many U.S. Catholics leave the Church as join it, more than any other denomination. Thousands of Catholics in the developing world have minimal access to Mass and the sacraments because of too few celibate priests

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