Married Priests Practiced Celibacy

Rome Reports ^ | March 8, 2010 | Rome Reports

[Leoni]

The Point of the discussion is your comment that “So if you think all Catholic priests should be unmarried, you appear to have a disagreement with the Bishop of Rome”.

What you've posted does not say anything about what the current pope believes. Historically, the Church had accepted (TOLERATED)the schismatics priests who came back into the Catholic Church. The Church TOLERATED it. That does not mean that “the pope thinks that married priests should be the norm, or that he is for changing the age old practice of celibate unmarried priests.

The Roman Rite is the rite used worldwide by I think like 96% of Catholics. The Eastern Rites like Maronite, Ruthenian, Melkite etc, represent a small part of the whole. The few married priests are TOLERATED, that's all. I'm sure that you know what the Church means by TOLERATE.