[Hugin]

I hereby retract my statement. I swear I read a thread on FR some time back about how the Church was accepting married men with families as priests in Africa due to "cultural considerations". However, I can find no evidence to back this up.

[Coleus]

OK,

but one thing you said confused me, how would the marriage situation of a priest affect the lack of enthusiasm of Catholics of any particular geographic area, in this case the "west". Maybe many western areas of old-time catholics take their religion for granted while many converts and former Pagans accept their new found faith with a zeal and exuberance we don't see anymore in the west regardless of the marriage situation of the priest.