text: Thank you for a very thoughtful post.  The church cannot be whole, healthy or holy until all of its offices and ministries are available to women and men, married, single or celibate.  The foundation for this expansion of our understanding of ministry and office in the church is already found in the work of theologians and in the experience of the People of God.  The institutional change may or may not emanate from a pope or bishop; or it may arise from the local churches.  But it will come.