"The question of celibacy for the Latin church has become an extremely serious problem not only in the Netherlands but also in other countries and threatens to lead to a split in the Catholic Church. We cannot and may not look on this development without taking action. Even those who don’t reject a law of celibacy outright regard the unity of the Church as a greater good than the preservation of a disciplinary law which has neither applied for all times nor applies everywhere today. . . . given the present heightening of the issue, the situation outside of the Netherlands is also very much more threatening than might appear at first sight. We therefore call on our bishops, in accordance with the shared responsibility of the bishops for the whole church which was endorsed again at Vatican II, as individuals and through their conferences to intercede publicly for the substantive conversation about this question in Rome which is long overdue and has often been called for."
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Hans Kung, Norbert Greinacher, Johannes Neumann; "Bishop’s Conferences of West Germany, Austria and Switzerland", p.51
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