Perhaps Ordain Some Married Deacons as Married Priests First: Synod Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Austria (EWTN Interview)

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Austria:


The question of married priests, I myself said, “Well, first, do you have married deacons?  Vatican II has opened the possibility of married deacons.”  


And I said, “This is a kind of laboratory where you can see how it works.  [Married priests - sic?] married deacons with family having their professional life and working as volunteers for the Church, for their parish, baptizing, blessing marriages, and making funerals and all these possibilities of permanent deacons.


And perhaps, perhaps if the Church decides it is possible that, one or the other, some of them one day may become ordained priest, it’s not to be excluded. But before asking these questions, we have to ask these other questions which have perhaps not been sufficiently treated in the Synod.”