text: " the Catholic Church for more than a thousand years has defined the priesthood in terms of monasticism, not ministry, and only agreed to a transition at Vatican II"
  
  Please back up this assertion.
  
  I can see where you want to go (because part 2 follows!), but you don't help the argument by such sloppy history. The distinction between '"secular" and "religious" clergy is not an invention of Vatican II.