[Hermann the Cherusker]

So my statement that the eastern rite and the converted Lutheran and Episcopal clergy can be married is 100% accurate.

Yes, but it is not because there is no theology behind the celibacy requirement. Eastern Rite priests are under a canonical obligation to practice periodic continence prior to ministering at the Altar. The acceptance of married Lutheran and Epicopalian clergy is an indulgence to their weakness in the interests of having them convert. They are of course free to embrace the traditional discipline of married men accepting the yoke of celibacy even while still being married.

[muir_redwoods]

Celibacy is a discipline, not dogma. That is what is meant by the theology. The allowance for the converted clergy is not an allowance for their weakness but rather a recognition that a married priest is better than a divorced one.

There is no theological reason for celibacy, it is a discipline. St Peter, the first Pope, had a Mother-in-law