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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

July 26, 1983

A Gallup Poll says 58 percent of American Roman Catholics believe priests should be allowed to marry. Women favored a married priesthood more than men did , 62 to 54 percent. Advocates of a married priesthood say it would ease the shortage of priests.