I’ve been thinking about this (always a dangerous proposition). I don’t know we get from here to there, but it could be that the Church finds two or three holy, devout, old laymen who are widowers with children in as many dioceses as possible, and consecrates them as bishops, and have these men serve as a bridge to a new generation of exclusively non-sodomite clergy.
These men would be assisted by a second group of devout, older, married men who would administer the day-to-day affairs of the Church, much as deacons were originally supposed to do.
These two groups would self-perpetuate and serve for two or three generations, while seminaries and the lower clergy were reconstituted.
Anyway, that’s my bright idea for the month, lol.
Good idea.