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Aims of Advent

+ To be a support group for men and women and their partners who have left the active ministry, or religious life.

+ To offer a safe haven for men and women who are considering change.

+ To be a support for others closely involved with the priest's or religious' decision.

+ To work for change in the Church and its ministry

Advent Group - Supporting Priests & Religious since 1969

Married Priests

Catholics have married priests now!

Written by: Alex Walker
Created: 06 December 2025

โœจ๐ƒ๐ˆ๐ƒ ๐˜๐Ž๐” ๐Š๐๐Ž๐– ๐“๐‡๐€๐“ ๐‚๐€๐“๐‡๐Ž๐‹๐ˆ๐‚๐’ ๐‡๐€๐•๐„ ๐Œ๐€๐‘๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐ƒ ๐๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’๐“๐’? โœจ

 
(A Truth Many Protestants Donโ€™t Expect to Hear)
 
When some Protestants argue that the Catholic Church โ€œforbids priests to marryโ€ and therefore fulfills the prophecy of 1 Timothy 4:1โ€“3 (โ€œforbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meatsโ€), they usually donโ€™t realize one important reality:
 
๐Ÿ‘‰ The Catholic Church actually HAS married priests โ€” right now.
 
Not historicallyโ€ฆ but today.
 
Letโ€™s break this open. ๐Ÿ‘‡
 
 1. ๐˜พ๐™š๐™ก๐™ž๐™—๐™–๐™˜๐™ฎ ๐™„๐™จ ๐™– ๐˜ฟ๐™ž๐™จ๐™˜๐™ž๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š (๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐˜ฟ๐™ค๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š) โ€” ๐™Š๐™ฃ๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™‡๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™š
 
The Catholic Church is made up of 24 rites.
Only ONE of them โ€” the Latin (Roman) Rite โ€” requires priestly celibacy as a discipline.
 
A discipline:
โœ” is changeable
โœ” is practical, not doctrinal
โœ” is chosen, not forced

Read more: Catholics have married priests now!

New report on Anglican Ordinations

Written by: Ruth Gledhill
Created: 21 November 2025
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/more-than-one-in-three-catholic-ordinations-are-former-anglican-clergy-says-new-report/
 

More than one in three Catholic ordinations are former Anglican clergy, says new report

Ruth Gledhill 
20 November 2025, The Tablet 

More than one third of priestly ordinations in the Catholic Church in England and Wales from 1992 to 2024 were former Anglican clergy, according to a report published today.

Around 700 former clergy and religious of the Church of England, Church in Wales or Scottish Episcopal Church have been received into the Catholic Church since 1992, including 16 former Anglican bishops and two โ€œcontinuingโ€ Anglican bishops. From 1992 to 2025, five Anglican permanent deacons and 486 Anglican priests were ordained in the Catholic Church.

Read more: New report on Anglican Ordinations

Former Workington priest jailed for sex offences dies in HMP Swaleside

Written by: Alex Walker
Created: 06 November 2025

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/25583930.former-workington-priest-jailed-sex-offences-dies-hmp-swaleside/?ref=ial

Peter Turner, 85, died of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) on February 6 at HMP Swaleside, according to an investigation report from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.

 
The former priest, known as Father Gregory Carroll, was jailed in February 2020, with a sentence of 20 years 10 months, after he admitted a string of sexual offences more than 30 years earlier against three boys aged between nine and 12.

Read more: Former Workington priest jailed for sex offences dies in HMP Swaleside

Welsh priest admits sending neo-Nazi messages as part of โ€˜sexual fetishโ€™

Written by: Alex Walker
Created: 01 November 2025
October 31, 2025
Welsh priest admits sending neo-Nazi messages as part of โ€˜sexual fetishโ€™  
The Catholic Herald
 
A Catholic priest from Cardiff has been sentenced to a year-long community order after admitting to sending racist and violent messages in an online neo-Nazi chatroom.
 
Father Mark Rowles, 57, of St John Lloyd Catholic Church, appeared before magistrates after investigators from counter-terrorism police traced his posts on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.

Read more: Welsh priest admits sending neo-Nazi messages as part of โ€˜sexual fetishโ€™

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  • Catholics have married priests now!
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  • Welsh priest admits sending neo-Nazi messages as part of โ€˜sexual fetishโ€™
  • Alabama priest takes leave of absence

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