[RobbyS]

Your guys depend on a long tradition in which the role of married priest is well-defined. Our guys do NOT. It is always dangerous to institute radical reforms because people don't give due respect to the customs they are overthrowing. Customs exists for a reason and oftenwe don't understand that reason until after we have thrown out the custom and see the evils that result.

[narses]

From the article"

"Since I converted I have been appalled as the Church abandoned traditions centuries old and opted for changes to ways main line Protestantism has tried and found wanting. I am mystified by arguments by Catholic theologians that a particular custom or practice dates “only” from the 11th (or 13th or 16th) century. Why should something which has served the spiritual needs of Catholics for seven or eight centuries be discarded solely because it is only seven or eight centuries old?"