[llama hunter]

I think married priests will happen before women priests if ever since there were married priests in the Catholic Church until 1139 AD......obviously the Eastern Orthodox Catholic tradition believes there is scriptural support for married priests

[Conservative til I die]

I think married priests will happen before women priests if ever since there were married priests in the Catholic Church until 1139 AD......obviously the Eastern Orthodox Catholic tradition believes there is scriptural support for married priests

You are misunderstanding Church teaching on the topic. It's not that we find a married priesthood unscriptural or a celibate clergy scriptural. That never was the issue. Celibacy is a discipline, not a doctrine, and it can be changed at any time. You can't do that with doctrine. The Church merely finds celibacy to be the ideal and certainly the better alternative to a married priesthood.

[Conservative til I die]

I think married priests will happen before women priests if ever since there were married priests in the Catholic Church until 1139 AD......obviously the Eastern Orthodox Catholic tradition believes there is scriptural support for married priests

You are misunderstanding Church teaching on the topic. It's not that we find a married priesthood unscriptural or a celibate clergy scriptural. That never was the issue. Celibacy is a discipline, not a doctrine, and it can be changed at any time. You can't do that with doctrine. The Church merely finds celibacy to be the ideal and certainly the better alternative to a married priesthood.

[newzjunkey]

Some priests can be married even now so long as they were already married when joining seminary or, more likely, when they convert from being married clergy of one Christian faith to Catholicism... so there are already exceptions and accommodations.