"The news that Pope Francis has set in motion the planning for a synod of bishops of the Amazon region next year may not strike most U.S. Catholics as a matter of great interest. But hold on – there’s a lot more at stake here than may appear at first glance. For if the bishops of the vast (2.1 million square miles), priest-short Amazon region ask for married priests and the Pope approves – and both of those things seem likely to happen – the synod will have taken a large step toward married priests in many areas besides the Amazon.
If so, it won’t mark the end of priestly celibacy. But it will have set the Church on a path of radical change in ways that lie far beyond anybody’s ability to predict now."
Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column/viri-probati-3893 (accessed 9/17/2019)
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