[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.

[Conservative til I die]

There's a difference between disagreement and submission. You're free to disagree with the Pope about the matter, but as the Vicar of Christ, you and I and every other Catholic have to recognize that the Pope's word on the matter is final, until it changes. Try to go and get ordained as a married man, outside of the few exceptions (Eastern Church, Lutheran and Anglican converts), and you'll see what I mean.

This obedience, while it disgusts the Protestants, is what makes our Church so great. We accept the Pope's word on certain things as final. That's why there s 1 billion+ of us in our denomination, and another half-billion or so spread across thousands of denominations of Protestants, from the Anglicans and Lutherans to the Children of God, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Christain Scientists.