You wrote:
“the church makes a big deal out of celibacy and then it is supposed to be “ok” to have a married priest?”
I attended a Catholic parish where there was a married priest. No big deal.
Its the hypocrisy..THAT is the big deal.
THE CHURCH says it is NOT ok for priests to marry or go into the preisthood married ( unless of course there are “exceptions”)...they say this nationally, internationally...as part of church doctrine ...then if there is an “exception”, nothing is said, “Oh well, nothing to see here, move along now...”
It is also very much like the hypocrisy of the Ted Kennedy funeral for a pro-choice politician, the “annullment “ for the other Kennedy though his wife fought the church NOT to have it.