text: Christ himself called married men to the priesthood (calling St. Peter's mother in law, anyone?)    Natch, of course, eventually the hierarchy decided they knew better and restricted the priesthood to celibate men (in the Western Church).  After all, what would a poor carpenter from Nazareth know about running a church; why he did not even own a watered silk red cappa magna!
  
  That said, Frank you are the pope, you can do it via a pronouncement from the window, but yet we still "study and talk." St. John XXIII was only in power for a year before he decided to call an ecumenical council of the universal church...you've been in four years!   You've pushed us to the point where I feel like Eliza continuing to listen to Freddy.