From Rome every year a number of black-cassocked seminarians go home on vacation, take unto themselves wives, bed them legally. Presently, with the sanction of the Roman Catholic Church, these youths are ordained subdeacons. Later, men of family though they may be, they become priests. Unique in the Catholic clergy, such married priests are members of certain Uniat sects once estranged from Rome, now reunited, differing slightly in practice but accepting the full authority of the Pope.
In one such Uniat sect, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, two friends began laboring years...
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