[RobbyS]

Celibacy represents a long tradition in the Latin Church and should not be discarded simply because of what has happened in the lasy thirty years. Having been raised in deep East Texas which is overwhelmingly none-Catholic, I have seen the disadvantages of a married clergy. Having said that, I would encourage the growth of the non-Latin rites, which have experience with married clergy, so we don't have another precipitant reforms that throw out the baby with the bath water and which have characterized the Church since 1965.

[a history buff]

I agree, almost completely. Ending celibacy will not bring us to Utopia. We didn't ditch married clergy during the middle ages for nothing. But right now, it may be needed to get more and better priests involved in the church. Don't remember that only 50 years ago, much less 300 years ago, an education was a much bigger privilige, and the idea that those whom the community had educated should give their all back to the community was much more entrenched in our hearts.