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)

Cardinal Jaime Spengler [Appointed Bishop by Benedict XVI], Head of Latin American Bishops Conference CELAM, Calls for Openness to Ordaining Viri Probati (Married Priests) During Synod in 2024: Archdiocese is “investing in permanent deacons: Maybe in the future these married men could also be ordained as priests for a specific community.”

 

His Eminence Jaime Cardinal Spengler, OFM, of Brazil

(age 65)

Source (April 1, 2026): https://ewtnvatican.com/articles/pope-francis-brazilian-pick-for-cardinal-urges-openness-to-ordaining-married-priests-in-region-3549

EXCERPT:

Spengler once again indicated he is open to ordaining married men, so-called “viri probati,” to serve as priests — a subject much debated during the Vatican’s Amazon synod in 2019.

The archbishop and future cardinal said at a briefing for the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican Oct. 8 [2024] that his archdiocese is “investing in permanent deacons: Maybe in the future these married men could also be ordained as priests for a specific community.”

The issue of the priestly ordination of married men — currently not allowed by Church discipline in the Latin rite — is “delicate,” Spengler noted. “I don’t know if it could be the best solution to the shortage of priests, but we need frankness and openness to deal with it. It’s a journey.”

“I don’t have prepackaged answers,” he continued. “We can and must face the issue with courage, keeping in mind theology but also grasping the signs of the times.”

Spengler, who has a doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome, was born in Gaspar in the state of Santa Caterina, just north of where he now lives in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.