[ricks_place]

Friend, visit the Vatican website.

[sitetest]

Dear ricks_place,

The misunderstanding comes from this. A married man, though usually barred from ordination to the priesthood in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church, may be ordained to the diaconate, and may sometimes be permitted to be ordained a priest, and the general rule in the Eastern Catholic Churches is to permit married men to be ordained, even to the priesthood, although no married man in any of the Catholic Churches is ever consecrated to the episcopacy.

Conversely, a man who is not married and already ordained, even only as a deacon, may never validly marry (with the exception of men who are laicized and relieved from their promise of celibacy).

Married men can become priests.
Unmarried men who are already ordained may not subsequently marry.

sitetest

[sitetest]

Additionally, a married cleric (deacon or priest) may not remarry if widowed.

[Dr. Sivana]

“Various other Catholic Rites do not bar ordained priests from marriage.”

ALL “Catholic Rites” bar ordained priests from marriage; every last one of them.

Kolokotronis is right in his wording. A priest who is already ordained in ANY rite cannot marry. The Catholic rites do "...bar ordained priests from marriage." But outside of the Roman Rite they do not bar men living in marriage from the priesthood.