[VidMihi]

Good historical response but we must consider today and the needs of the Church today. A simple solution would be required celibacy for those who choose the vowed life, the religious who live in community and who have a commitment "to the common table"

and the option of married or single life for those who take no vows but are ordained "for service to the people of God". These would be the "secular" or worldly clergy who serve parishes under the direction of a bishop.

[annalex]

The needs of the Church today are to present a convincing and uncompromising model of chastity. What you propose serves, perhaps, the needs of some who should insted be deacons, or engage in some lay apostolate, or become priests in an Oriental Rite, but it goes contrary to the needs of the Church in the West.