The Vatican on Monday reminded its priests they should not be charging fixed prices for celebrating weddings and funerals...
The Vatican on Monday reminded its priests they should not be charging fixed prices for celebrating weddings and funerals, and that such ceremonies could be performed by lay people where necessary.
“An offering, by its very nature, must be a free act on the part of the one offering… not a ‘price to pay’ or a ‘fee to exact’, as if dealing with a sort of ‘tax’,” it said. The church is also grappling with fewer priests and an outdated parish model which it said needed urgent reform.While the number of Catholics went up globally by almost six percent between 2013 and 2018, the number of priests dropped 0.3 percent — with an over seven percent drop in Europe, the church’s 2020 annual statistical report said.
The Vatican said best practice would have one priest care for one parish, but “because a shortage of priests or other circumstances, the care of a number of neighbouring parishes can be entrusted to a single parish priest”.
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