>> I agree with letting priests marry and allowing already married men become priests.
The church has never let men who have already been ordained get married. That’s not gonna happen.
But it could ordain men who are already married, and in fact, already does, sometimes. I belong to a parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, and our pastor is married. He was an Episcopalian priest, and already married when he converted to Catholicism. Five years later he was ordained a Catholic priest. He’s great.
However, witnessing the married Catholic priesthood up close for over five years now, I have to say I’m not a big fan of it. Our pastor and his wife make it work in their case, but I see the strain. I don’t think there are many couples who could make it work.
I have read on FR this year sometime that Pope Francis is planning to have a meeting with those bishops from the Amazon (not the famous Jeff Bezos online business), but big river in Brazil next to look at ordaining “mature” married men to the priesthood. Kid you not.
Correction: next year, 2018.
Double correction: 2019.