[Zemo]

Eastern Rite Catholics have married clergy along the lines of Orthodox Greek Rite practice and yet they are fully Catholic (the so called Uniates) and I also think this is allowed among the Coptic Rite Catholics and other Eastern Rite Catholics.

So to be correct, Latin Rite Catholic clergy are the only Catholic clergy forbidden to marry though this is in violation of the rulings of the Ecumenical Council on married clergy (though I forget which one).

[Joseph DeMaistre]

So to be correct, Latin Rite Catholic clergy are the only Catholic clergy forbidden to marry though this is in violation of the rulings of the Ecumenical Council on married clergy (though I forget which one).

>>You refer to the Quinisext Council, which Rome refused to ratify. It later accepted some of the canons from this council, although not all of them.

>>You should also remember that the Roman Catholic Church believes that the pope is above an Ecumenical Council, which places it at odds with Orthodoxy among other issues.

>>There were plenty of local councils of the Western Church that affirmed clerical celibacy. The Council of Elvira in Spain, for one.