[Loyalist]

If the Latin Rite ever goes back to optional celibacy, the process for prescreening married candidates for ordination would therefore have to take into account the candidate's wife's suitability for her possible ministry. Thanks for weighing in, Reader.

I can't see too many modern Catholic career women agreeing to subordinate their career to their husbands' vocation.

Especially not if they're pulling down the bigger pay cheque in the household.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

The Western mindset is so different from the East. It would be very, very difficult to institute this change.

[possum]

I can't see too many modern Catholic career women agreeing to subordinate their career to their husbands' vocation.

Especially not if they're pulling down the bigger pay cheque in the household.

Me neither. My hat's off to those women in the Eastern Rites and those married to returned Anglican priests who manage to pull it off. Their sacrifice is as great as or greater than their husbands'. It's difficult to accept a vocation involving hardship, but imagine if it's not even your own vocation?