[wideawake]

Again, there is a enormous distinction - ignored by most Americans and the American media - between a married man being ordained (completely valid and licit, with proper permission, in both the Catholic Church and the Orthodox churches) and an ordained man getting married after his ordination - which is illicit in all circumstances and cause for laicization.

The main argument of the "priests should be married" liberals is that they want all the elderly hippie priests who left the ministry, got laicized and got married to be readmitted with full priestly faculties.

That can never happen and would be enormously damaging to any ecumenical discussions with the Orthodox if it did.

This is the opposite circumstance - these are married men becoming Catholic priests, which is the norm in the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church.

[MacMattico]

The article is not talking about the Eastern Rites, but the RCC. Are you saying the RCC has to change because others do it differently? No, how about married Episcopals go join the Eastern Rite churches.

WHEN you get married shouldn’t determine whether you can be a Priest with a wife or not in the RCC. That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?