Source: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/10/09/the-realities-and-challenges-of-the-married-priesthood-an-eastern-catholic-perspective/ (10/22/19)
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Pain and gain: There are, to be sure, incredible gains to a married priesthood, not the least of which is that married men are often much more healthily molded and humbled by wife and children, and much less prone to clericalism and the abuses of power and sex we find so often in the Church today—arguments I give at much greater length in the last chapter of Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed: Ridding the Church of Abuses of Sex and Power. If the Latin Church decides to come on board with a married presbyterate—alongside married priests in the Anglican ordinariates and the Eastern Catholic Churches—then it will gain many gifts, but all such gifts come with costs seldom considered. Caveat emptor.
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