[ebb tide]

...and no, the married Eastern priest or deacon was typically not abstinent, not separated from his wife nor living with her in the brother/sister mode. Did you read Cardinal Stickler's research on deacons?

So the majority of the married Eastern clergy were incontinent? Does that justify the disobedience?

Doesn't sound much different from those Catholics who practice artificial birth control, because "everybody does it".

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’m no canonist, so don’t cite me as an authority (as if!), but I think the Eastern Catholic Churches (Byzantine Greek Catholic, etc. -— I’m not talking about the separated Orthodox) have their own canon law. They’re not covered under the canon law of the West.