[A.A. Cunningham]

But it seems like a matter of principle that Catholic priests can't marry. Yet you are saying that some Catholic priests can marry?

It's a matter of Scripture. Celibacy is a higher calling praised by both Christ and St. Paul.

Catholic Priests cannot marry and remain active priests. The Pope has granted dispensations to a small number of married Protestant ministers who have converted to Catholicism and sought ordination in the Latin Rite. In the Eastern Rite married men can be ordained as priests but once ordained a single priest may not then get married. Bishops in the Eastern Rite are selected exclusively from celibates.

[sinkspur]

The Pope has granted dispensations to a small number of married Protestant ministers who have converted to Catholicism and sought ordination in the Latin Rite.

800 and counting.

And, the Anglican Dispensation only highlights the fact that married men can function effectively as priests in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.

Did you know that not a single one of these men has left the Catholic priesthood, nor has a single one of them divorced? And that's over 20 years while this dispensation has been in effect.

OH, and none of them have been implicated in the sexual abuse fiasco.

[sinkspur]

So, I take your last post as a "no" to some form of service to the Church?

That's a waste. Don't bury your talents, man.