Thank you for the info and for pointing me in the right direction on this.
According to this passage in Mark 1:29-31 Simon Peter was married. Therefore, I never understood why priests could not marry.
“29(A) And immediately he[a](B) left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. 30Now(C) Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. 31And he came and(D) took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.”
Don’t you think it is possible that Peter’s wife died?
An ordained permanent deacon in the Latin Church can be married, but if their wife should die, they cannot re-marry.
Another thing — Peter left EVERYTHING and went off to follow Jesus.