The bishops approve the ordination of married priests for the Amazon

The Synod on the Amazon has approved the proposal to order priests to married men in the most isolated areas of this region , included in the final document that was voted today by the bishops and that has been one of the most controversial issues in these three weeks of debate

"We propose (...) to ordain priests to suitable and recognized men of the community who have a fruitful diaconate and receive adequate training for the presbyterate, being able to have a legitimately constituted and stable family, " notes point 111 of the document, which achieved 128 votes in favor and 41 against.

According to the rules of the Synod, each of the points of the final document - the result of the requests and debates of these days - to be approved needed the positive vote of two thirds of the bishops present , which today was 120.

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