[Buckeye McFrog]

IMO married priests will become the norm within the decade. Once the Church agreed to start accepting married Orthodox and Anglican priests and their families, it became an indefensible position. Right now where I live, due to retirements, aging and deaths, we are looking at a cluster of 5 parishes sharing one Priest. The Church cannot sustain that. At the collection basket nor anyplace else.

[ronnietherocket3]

IMO married priests will become the norm within the decade.

I doubt this, it takes about 7+ years to become a priest. 1+ year of discernment followed by 6 or 7 years of formation.

[Biggirl]

Well the first Pope was a married man, Peter.

[RobbyS]

The good bishop ignores the experience of the Protestant clergy and indeed, the very notion of priesthood that has sustained the Church for at least fifteen hundred years. That is the notion of the priest as exemplars of virtue. Without this high ideal, what happens to the notion of monogamous marriage? We hear much talk of “love” but what does Christian love mean but sacrificial love? “Love” to the hedonists is just self-love, which is to say loving oneself as God. The only thing that sustains morality then becomes the individual conscience, which is easily preyed upon by our human weaknesses.

[Biggirl]

Sadly, spot on!