text: No, they were not harmed because they agreed on being ordained to celibacy. They did not have a right to the ability to marry in the Church.
  
  Celibacy was the norm from the apostolic age forward, but in any case that is irrelevant.
  
  I prefer mature people who keep their promises and take their word seriously, particularly when it comes to hearing confessions and giving godly counsel. That has absolutely nothing to do with clerics in the Eastern churches who did not take that obligation on.
  
  You know full well that these requests for special treatment were occasioned by doing things that they knew they should not do that led to the request in the first place.
  
  Exceptions are just that, exceptions, and I would be thankful that you benefitted from one rather than make rash statements that the facts and the Church’s discipline don’t support.