"Canadian bishops have been making requests for decades… politely but firmly proposing that an exception (to the law of celibacy) be made for sacerdotal ordination for aboriginal men,” said Canadian Church historian Michael Higgins (2019), distinguished professor of Catholic Thought at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. “These efforts went nowhere. Perhaps now they can be reconsidered in the light of the Amazon synod.”

“Canadian bishops have been making requests for decades… politely but firmly proposing that an exception (to the law of celibacy) be made for sacerdotal ordination for aboriginal men,” said Canadian Church historian Michael Higgins, distinguished professor of Catholic Thought at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. “These efforts went nowhere. Perhaps now they can be reconsidered in the light of the Amazon synod.” For American missionary Father Barry Bercier at St. Stephen’s in Igloolik, Nunavut, the need to ordain married men is clear. But the execution is complicated. “That particular canon law (against married priests) is just canon law. It came about for historical reasons that for the most part I don’t think really apply any more,” he said." Source: https://bccatholic.ca/settle-married-priests-issue-at-global-synod-former-cccb-head/