>> 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.
This is true. The men who would be ordained would be viri probati, “proven men” in Latin. Their children would be grown and they would be men who have a reputation for Christian maturity.
I would be much more receptive to the viri probati than to a general acceptance of married men with young children. However, it should include the obligation of sexual continence.
Most likely being looked at because of the growth of the Evangelical churches down that way.