First The Anglicans, Now The Lutheran, Our Family Is Growing !!!

This image provided by the Archdiocese of Cologne, shows Harm Klueting, a priest, during a ceremony at the Roman Catholic priests college in Cologne Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011. In a rare move that needed the Pope's approval, the Lutheran convert was ordained Tuesday as a Catholic priest in Germany and is being allowed to remain married to his wife. Pope Benedict XVI gave Klueting a special permission to remain married to his wife Edeltraut Klueting, who became a Catholic Carmelite in 2004. Edeltraut is a Third Order Carmelite (T.OCarm.). In other words she is a tertiary and not a fully professed Carmelite nun. Tertiaries don't need permission to marry, they are laity. The Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's chief spokesman, said the exception is rare but there have been similar cases.

{Tertiary: is a member of a monastic third order especially of lay people. It comes form the Latin word, of a third}

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