[Conservative til I die]

Submit to the will of the Pope. The unmarried clergy is here to stay for a long while.

[sinkspur]

Submit to the will of the Pope. The unmarried clergy is here to stay for a long while.

Submit to the will of the Pope? On a non-doctrinal matter?

Catholics are free to dissent on incidentals, and celibacy is an incidental.

They are also free to dissent on issues like capital punishment, which are not matters of the ordinary or extraordinary magisterium.

There is a married clergy: married deacons and the Anglican dispensation. And, there will be more.