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The Roman Catholic Church should allow priests to get married, one of its top officials has said. Archbishop Charles Scicluna, who leads Malta’s Catholic Church as well the Vatican body that investigates sex abuse allegations made about priests, said the church was losing people due to its strict celibacy rules. “If it were up to me, I would revise the rules requiring a priest to be celibate,” Scicluna told Times of Malta in an interview published Sunday. “Why should we lose a young man who would have made a fine priest, just because he wanted to get married?” “A man may… love a woman. As it…