Pope Paul VI granted a dispensation that allowed Beck to be ordained in Germany as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. A former Lutheran minister, Father Beck, at 42, was married with two children. He was the first American among a handful of Latin Rite Catholic priests who have received dispensations from the Pope to take Holy orders without a vow of celibacy.
Pope Paul VI granted a dispensation that allowed Beck to be ordained in Germany as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. A former Lutheran minister, Father Beck, at 42, was married with two children. He was the first American among a handful of Latin Rite Catholic priests who have received dispensations from the Pope to take Holy orders without a vow of celibacy.
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