"In Presbytereum Ordinis, the council fathers departed from Pius XII’s 1954 characterization of clerical celibacy as “doctrine” (a truth revealed by God and therefore not subject to revision). Instead, they described celibacy as a matter of Church law: “Indeed it is not demanded by the very nature of the priesthood, as is apparent from the practice of the early Church and from the traditions of the Eastern Churches, where besides those who with all the bishops, by a gift of grace, choose to observe celibacy, there are also married priests of highest merit.” Although Jon XXIII had alluded to the nondoctrinal quality of priestly celibacy in his 1963 interview with Etienne Gilson, ‘’Presbyterorum Ordinis’’ was the first official post-World War II Church document to do so."
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