text: Ideally, any baptized person whose called to priestly ministry is validated by the Church can and should be ordained.  In the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, I hope to see celibate women ordained *before* the celibacy requirement is relaxed.  The numbers of priests would double overnight, and the vocations shortage can thus be alleviated in the short term.  This is the way I see the situation unfolding:
  
  Religious Patriarchy ~ Annotated Chronology of Key Events
  http://pelicanweb.org/CCC.TOB.html#CHRONOLOGY
  
  The patriarchal priesthood of the Old Law is a yoke that is not easy, and a burden that is not light.  It is by no means normative for the sacramental priesthood of the New Law, and is now obsolete and utterly irrelevant.  As far as I know, there is no dogmatic impediment; so, why not?  The pluses and minuses of a married priesthood can be reconsidered in due time; but   further delaying the ordination of celibate women is to perpetuate an ancient error devoid of revealed truth.