[Nifster]

Snark all you want... I merely noted the hypocrisy of the roman church and its dogma

[Ransomed]

Yeah. The discipline of celibacy is a dogma, for sure. And obviously it is only hypocritically ever broken at all when Protestant clergy are threatened into asking to become married Catholic clergy due to the outrageous machinations of not accepting female clergy and ‘gay marriage.’

Freegards

[livius]

It’s not a dogma, it’s a discipline. Clerical celibacy is, IMHO, a very good thing, and really does give us priests who are very focused on their ministry. However, it can be relaxed for prudential reasons, and receiving an already-married Protestant would be one of them.

There’s nothing hypocritical at all in it.

[BillyBoy]

The ban on married priests is a regulation, not a “dogma”. The Catholic Church has never preached that you CANNOT be validly ordained unless you are unmarried, and married priests were allowed prior to the 1100s.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The Catholic Church has no "dogma" on priestly celibacy, and never has.

Thought you'd want to know.