O que está em jogo teologicamente no debate sobre a ordenação de homens casados?

Abstract

Between the topics to be addressed by the Amazon Special Synod (Rome, 2019) is the condition of thousands of communities that, in the Amazon region, do not have access to weekly Eucharist due to the lack of priests. In a famous axiom, Henri de Lubac (1896-1991), deepening the Eucharist-Church relation theme in the ecclesiastic literature during the first Christian millennium, says that "The Church makes the Eucharist, and the Eucharist makes the Church". Several communities gather in order to celebrate the Word of God, and it is known that the Word is in the origin of the Church: the Church is certainly a "Creation of the Word". Those communities lack, however, the frequent celebration – preferably at Sundays – of Eucharist, for it is the celebration of Eucharist that "makes the Church". Since the Church celebrates Eucharist ("Church makes the Eucharist") always under the presidency of a priest or bishop and these, in the Amazon, lack chronically, the author suggests that some ordination conditions should be reviewed, including celibacy, in order to the Church in Amazon be able, with its ordained ministers, reach its full ecclesiastic and missionary constitution.