Question? ....i have known and worked with over 35 priests who after serving faithfully for over
10, 20, 30 yrs....."retired" from the priesthood of celibacy and married...., a priest in a  known
archdiocese  told me that the priest, just released from prison, "wasn't a priest anymore and slammed
the phone down on me..., i was asking him why his dioceses had not helped him when he got out of
prison......i called back , left a message on his phone...."i do not know where you studied, but
i was at the Greg in Rome and never found in Canon Law that the mark of  priesthood
could be erased",..... i slammed  the phone down...!!!!....i  was at the ordination to the priesthood of a married man  ...his catholic parish  is the most dynamic parish in a large city....,....i pray that the church allows  married priests...., i know two isolated towns who have no "assigned" priests sent, maybe once a month to say mass.... both towns have  a married  priest.....they are asked to say mass,...dncrowley