[old and tired]

I would rather have a married priest than an actively homosexual one. However, I'd rather have a celibate woman priest than a married man. And since the Holy Father has told us we'll never have female priests, I guess at some point the pope will need to decide if we should have married priests. I hope it's after my lifetime, though.

[Antoninus]

However, I'd rather have a celibate woman priest than a married man. And since the Holy Father has told us we'll never have female priests, I guess at some point the pope will need to decide if we should have married priests.

Why are you setting up all these false choices? This isn't an "either/or" scenario as the liberals within the Church would have you believe. The celibate, non-homosexual, male priesthood will persist and prevail as the only option in the Latin rite, despite the best efforts of all those critters of various stripes who are opposed. And if we get a few more bishops like Fabian Bruskewitz, this manufactured priest "crisis" will evaporate in short order.

If you ask me, the "old and tired" revolutionaries of the 1960s church are in full panic mode, sensing that their "reforms" are about to be turned back by a younger generation that holds a more traditional view of the Church. This attack on priestly celibacy may be their last hurrah before they fade into the oblivion they so richly deserve.