[NYer]

Anticipating the usual comments and remarks.

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, it's sort of like permanent deacons, and it's an act of mercy for Episcopal priests who believed they were part of the Catholic church (although separated) but were rudely disabused of that notion by the misbehavior of the Episcopal Church.

It's certainly not going to become common. It's more of a rescue effort than anything else.

[tob2]

This is one issue on which I disagree with our Great Pope John Paul II. Married is married, no matter what religous affiliation a person has. Why should priests who converted from Lutheran, Anglican or Episcopalian and are married be allowed to become Catholic priests because they comverted to RC? IMHO, isn’t that a disservice to Roman Catholic priests who are not allowed to be married? It should be one way of the other with no exceptions.