[PasorBob]

The Vatican knows its future is in emulating, and uniting with, the Orthodox Church.

So the RCC would rather have married priests than female ones?

[utahagen]

Yep. There have always been married priests in Orthodox Churches and in Eastern Rite Churches. (The ladder use Orthodox rites, but are under the Vatican.)

[Campion]

Married priests (married before, not after, ordination) aren't a problem, theologically.

The idea of ordaining priestesses, OTOH, has been infallibly condemned. These nuns are essentially promoting heresy.

[A.A. Cunningham]

I will bet a dollar to a doughnut that women will be ordained in the Catholic Church in the next 20 years.

You'll lose that bet.

So the RCC would rather have married priests than female ones?

21 of the 22 Churches sui juris which comprise the Catholic Church ordain, as a norm, married men.

[PAR35]

So the RCC would rather have married priests

The Roman Catholic church already has married priests.