text: If the mandatory celibacy rule was dropped, we would not have this problem.  I attended a Sunday chicken dinner last week at my husbands Lutheran Church.  The 30ish, energetic pastor, a former Catholic, said he wanted to be a priest but also wanted to marry and have children. (Be fruitful and multiply).  The writing is on the wall.  Let's hope the Vatican wakes up before all of the horses have left the barn.