{"id":86678,"date":"2026-09-18T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=86678"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:45:37","slug":"german-bishop-backs-married-priests-ahead-of-bishops-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/german-bishop-backs-married-priests-ahead-of-bishops-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"German Bishop Backs Married Priests Ahead of Bishops\u2019 Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>NCR<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>A German auxiliary bishop has said the Catholic Church \u201ccould afford\u201d to ordain married men as priests while firmly rejecting demands for the ordination of women to the priesthood ahead of a crucial gathering of German bishops later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Auxiliary Bishop Josef Graf of Regensburg told the Catholic Sunday newspaper of the Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen in an interview published Sept. 15 that he personally believes the Church could open the door to so-called \u201cviri probati\u201d \u2014 men of proven faith who are married.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NCR: A German auxiliary bishop has said the Catholic Church \u201ccould afford\u201d to ordain married men as priests while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86679,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86678\/revisions\/86679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}