Pope rejects a proposal to allow married priests in the Amazon

Pope Francis has declined to approve proposals to allow married priests in the Amazon or women to be ordained as deacons

Last year, Pope Francis called for"bold proposals" to meet the spiritual needs of Catholics in the Amazon, a vast region with a scarcity of clerics.

But in a papal document released Wednesday, Francis ignored the boldest one: allowing married priests. Instead, Francis' highly anticipated document on the Amazon region, Querida Amazonia focuses mostly on cultural and environmental issues. Francis spices the 32-page document with plenty of poetry, but offers few, if any, pragmatic changes for the church.

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