[Aliska]

I call it unfair or a double standard, that I would like explained.

I'll let you know after they let me climb Mt. Athos. Is that fair or not?

[Spar]

That is not the same thing exactly. For that example you made to apply it would be that Orthodox women would not be allowed to climb Mt. Athos, but women of for example's sake from a fictional Western rite Orthodox church who were allowed up on Athos.

See what I mean? No women of any stripe are allowed on that Athos mountain commune.

Under this Uniate system, you have married priests of one side of the Catholic faith and then you have priests that are required to be celibate in another side of the same Catholic faith.

Again, I am not saying this as a dig to Catholics, I just can't get anyone to explain why this double standard/restriction exists for divorce and married clergy in the Catholic tradition(s).

Thanks.