Your Holiness, using Canon 1047.3 (to dispense Canon 1042.1), please open the priesthood to some/many married deacons with a fruitful diaconate, after suitable formation, and other married Roman Rite Catholic men not currently deacons, if bishops request it.

Your Holiness, please open the priesthood to some/many of such married deacons with a fruitful diaconate, after suitable formation, and other married Roman Rite Catholic men not currently deacons, if bishops request it, using dispensations in Canon 1047.3 (to dispense Canon 1042.1). 

Dear Holy Father, please open the Catholic priesthood to married deacons of the Latin Rite.  

They are older tested men (viri probati) that are: 

not paid by the diocese usually, 

don't need a rectory or pension from the diocese, 

experienced already in Sacraments and parish leadership, 

are usually financially stable already, 

are proven with family and married life, 

didnt bankrupt billions the way mandated celibate priests bankrupted the Church, 

and show the Latin Rite how marriage and ministry can be balanced the way it was done in the ancient Church.

marriedpriesthood.blogspot.com

They are Viri Probati to serve the Church in her hour of need, for the good of the Faithful, for just and reasonable cause to not neglect the Flock of God, for the defense of marriage and family life, and the salvation of souls. 

Gratias agimus tibi.

Francis (2023): “[Celibacy] is not eternal like priestly ordination, which is forever, whether you like it or not. Whether you leave or not is another matter, but it is forever. On the other hand, celibacy is a discipline.”

 “It is not eternal like priestly ordination, which is forever, whether you like it or not. Whether you leave or not is another matter, but it is forever. On the other hand, celibacy is a discipline.”

When asked by the Argentine journalist Daniel Hadad if celibacy “could be reviewed,” Pope Francis responded: “Yes, yes. In fact, everyone in the Eastern Church is married. Or those who want to. There they make a choice. Before ordination there is the choice to marry or to be celibate,” according to a transcript provided by Infobae.

Source: https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope-francis-discusses-revising-priestly-celibacy-in-new-interview

Blessed Fulton Sheen, Bi-Ritual Bishop, pray for us.

Dear Blessed Bishop Fulton Sheen, please pray for us and help us honor married priests in such a way that it does not damage relations between East & West.  Many Catholics insult and degrade our married priests.  We also pray especially for Orthodox-Catholic unity, ut unum sint (that they may be one), as Jesus is one with the Father.  Help heal the Lord's Church to breathe with two lungs, that the world may believe in Jesus whom the Father has sent.  We ask these in Jesus's Name.  Amen.

"Fitting time for a theology of married priesthood to be developed from a western perspective"

"Therefore, it would seem that now is a fitting time for a theology of married priesthood to be developed from a western perspective, a theology that does not in any way deny the blessings or the normative character of the celibate priesthood in the west but that acknowledges that marriage offers its own unique gifts to the practice of priestly ministry."

Fr. Jonathan Mitchican

 

(June 14, 2023) 

Source:

https://contemplativeapologetics.substack.com/p/a-theology-of-married-priesthood

“Yes. We need time.” - Mario Cardinal Grech on married priests; to authorize Latin Rite "craddle" Catholics (baptized/confirmed lifelong Catholic married men and not just Protestant/Anglican clergy) to be ordained as Catholic priests

“Yes. We need time.”

- Mario Cardinal Grech on married priests; to authorize Latin Rite "craddle" Catholics (baptized/confirmed lifelong Catholic married men and not just Protestant/Anglican clergy) to be ordained as Catholic priests

"Asked to confirm whether the pope’s response to the question of ordaining married men “is not a rejection” but rather is “a question that hasn't matured yet,” Cardinal Grech replied, "Yes.  We need time." (Gerard O'Connell, 2022)

Source: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/09/22/synod-synodality-grech-phase-two-married-priests-243833/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUeyCtwZG9mBGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzQwOTk2MjYyMzA4NTYwOQABHhmhLIM4B2IJZqdHoiJ3jmYSLLcaoMMkCCvsZZt0hu8gMA__Tcl3SdL-FCv2_aem_VwJNjxbsanYjJGFOJP8XDw

#marriedpriests

St. Sharbel of Maronite Catholic Rite: "The war of the Evil One against the Lord is a war against the family, and the war of the Evil One against the family is the core of his war against the Lord."

 "The war of the Evil One against the Lord is a war against the family, and the war of the Evil One against the family is the core of his war against the Lord." 

- St. Sharbel

O Lord Jesus, raise up family men to the Order of Presbyter to defend the family against the Evil One, and grant us victory in the war against the Enemy.  

And may these married priests defend their bride and children, just as Christ married to the Church defends his Bride and Children, in Your Name we pray.  Amen.

St. Bridget's Visions Do Not Undermine Restoring Married Priests in Latin Church Today: Toward a Correct Understanding of St. Bridget's Visions on Married Priests Against Those Who Cite Her/BVM Out of Context and Outside Church Doctrine

 Under construction

SSPX v FSSP: Tale of Two "States of Necessities" & Married Priests

SSPX says there is a state of necessity to ordain 4 new bishops without a papal mandate. 

Well, there is also a "state of necessity" for the global priest stortage following the global celibate priest scandals plaguing the Church, but 99.9% of the world's bishops don't willy-nilly ordain married men to the Latin priesthood without papal mandate. Canonical slippery slope for SSPX to ordain new bishops.

SSPX priests and Faithful, rather, should go instead to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) which is in union with Eternal Rome.  

Restoring Tradition means communion with Apostolic Succession, not dissent and rebellion like Protestants and Modernists.  (Tradition, btw, also means married priests.)

We cannot be more traditional than Tradition.

Posted on 24 June 2026 on https://www.facebook.com/100069578744987/posts/1326798176316128/?app=fbl

for source:

https://www.signofthecrossmedia.com/news/sspx-issues-154-point-profession-of-faith-to-pope-leo-cardinals-ahead-of-consecrations/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSpbgNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR4zpw527uYbnT2MU8y1271oRs2vARWDjMiet1kkke39-HUS2JTK4SQpC78Zpg_aem_qg-xXXuEdJ2L8lpO1vv6Fw

Χριστός ἀνέστη (Christos Anesti): Christ is Risen!

 

Christ the High Priest is Risen!

The East (and the Orthodox Churches) provide a model for a married Latin priesthood.

The Latin Church will look to the East which has had a married priesthood for over 2,000 years.

Two lungs.  One breath.

Christos Anesti!

Good Friday: "Jesus Christ, High Priest" on Cross Image

 

"Jesus Christ, High Priest"

Source: https://www.carmelitehermitage.org/giftshop/high-priest-framed-print

Prayer for Holy Thursday: Thank you, O Lord, for calling married men to ordination in Holy Orders.

 

 "The Mystical Supper," 

Russian Orthodox icon (1497)