[sinkspur]

The Anglican Dispensation along with the married permanent diaconate was the beginning of the end of mandatory celibacy in the Latin Rite.

Remember that article earlier tonight, on the reunion of the Anglicans, Orthodox and Catholics?

That will hasten it even more.

[CasearianDaoist]

Could you point me to the article you are talking about?

[Torie]

It is all guess work, but I have this gut instinct that B-16 in his presumably relatively short term, has at least one big surprise to offer up. I don't think this practical intellectual has a do nothing but further calcify and ossify mind set. We shall see.

[hispanichoosier]

The Anglican Dispensation along with the married permanent diaconate was the beginning of the end of mandatory celibacy in the Latin Rite.

Perhaps you are correct about the married permanent diaconate, but (with respect to the Anglican Dispensation), the Holy See had to make a prudential judgment between enforcing the discipline of celibacy and bringing a schismatic sect back into the fold. It's not an enviable position to be placed in, but I can see how the goal of reunion may have tipped the balance in favor of the Dispensation.

[Conservative til I die]

The Anglican Dispensation along with the married permanent diaconate was the beginning of the end of mandatory celibacy in the Latin Rite.

Considering 90% of US Catholics aren't even aware of the Anglican Dispensation or even the Eastern Rite, I say you're wrong. Worry more about your diaconate than internal Church politics.

[RobbyS]

The rule would still remain, first married, then priested, and no married need apply for bishoprics. Then we have the Greek problem: How to find women willing to marry into that lifestyle. The real problem of the '60 was not that they lusted after women, but that they lost faith in their divine mission. They dropped their crosses and walked away.

[Robert_Paulson2]

What I DON'T understand is where some Roman Catholics, believe that married priests, lead to homosexuality and abortion being accepted, as if these are all somehow linked theologically in the Church's teaching.

Weren't at least some of the Pope's married?
Wasn't celibacy actually introduced as a way of dealing with inheritance of Church property and wealth?

It's not like marriage is unclean or some unholy or defiled state of existence... is it?