[AnAmericanMother]

This is a dispensation out of mercy.

Many of these "high" Anglicans believed they were actually Catholic (I used to).

There have always been married priests, just not in the Roman rite. And married priests have very specific limits -- he may not remarry if his wife dies, and he may not become a bishop.

It doesn't change the general discipline (not absolute moral teaching) of celibacy. Nor the practical ramifications that St. Paul talked about.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I still can’t see the rigidity of Catholics with celibacy yet there are ‘exceptions”.

[StonyMan451]

And married priests have very specific limits -- he may not remarry if his wife dies, and he may not become a bishop

Just a clarification... if the priest's wife dies, he may become a bishop, at least in the Russian Orthodox Church. When I was growing up, a neighbor of mine was the legitimate daughter of a Russian Orthodox Archbishop.