[NYer]

Anticipating the usual comments and remarks.

[raybbr]

Married priests are long overdue in the Catholic Church.

[Salvation]

Archdiocese of Portland, OR has two married priests.

The Anglican priests, already married, are grandfathered in after completing all the Catholic theology, history, etc. classes.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Although no married priest has served here, about 100 married priests have been ordained in the United States since the late Pope John Paul II created an exception in 1980 that allows married Lutheran and Anglican or Episcopal priests who have converted to Roman Catholicism to become priests, Dolan wrote in a letter to priests and deacons this week.

I certainly hope Dolan correctly stated that only married Anglican converts can be ordained under the 1980 Pastoral Provision. Other married protestant converts who are ordained are done so with a dispensation from the discipline of celibacy. They too must agree to adopt the discipline of celibacy should their spouse precede them in death.

Pastoral Provision

[Mad Dawg]

The article saith, in passing,
...the Western church's requirement of celibacy for priests, which went into effect in the 11th century ...

And I am currently in a clash with someone who maintains it was the rule from the earliest days.

Anybody got some good sources on celibacy, I mean in addition to I Tim 3:2 and 3:12 and Titus 1:6?