Archbishop Mark Coleridge, Archbishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (appointed by B16 & JP2), Past President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (2023): “I don’t know quite when or how but … the question [of married priests / modifying mandated celibacy] is certainly not going away,” he said. “And I think there will come a point of maturation when it will look kind of like the natural next step, not an artificial or dramatic or untimely overturning of what’s been a very long tradition.” "Clerical celibacy is an undoubted value, but it’s not an absolute value." “But the question is whether it should be mandatory for all, and the context of the question is the changing profile of the priesthood and the current needs of the People of God.”

 

“I think it’s fairly bleak with regard to the Church generally now. So one of the things I have just floated is that: is there reason enough to say that within Indigenous communities we will ordain married men?

“We have married clergy. I mean, some of the clergy who are from other Churches are married men … so it’s not as if we don’t know married clergy.”

Source:

https://cathnews.com/2023/08/14/allow-married-indigenous-men-to-become-priests-archbishop-coleridge/

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“Clerical celibacy is an undoubted value, but it’s not an absolute value." 

“But the question is whether it should be mandatory for all, and the context of the question is the changing profile of the priesthood and the current needs of the People of God.” 

“I don’t know quite when or how but … the question is certainly not going away,” he said.

“And I think there will come a point of maturation when it will look kind of like the natural next step, not an artificial or dramatic or untimely overturning of what’s been a very long tradition.”

Source:

https://catholicleader.com.au/news/brisbane-archbishop-backs-married-indigenous-men-to-be-allowed-pathway-to-priesthood/