text: Letting back priests who left to marry would be a disaster. Many priests who have remained faithful to their promise of celibacy would walk away from that promise. Does one's word count for anything anymore?  Priests make promises to be celibate like married couples promise to be faithful to each other. Why would we expect priests in the rest of the world continue to keep their promise of celibacy if priests in Brazil could marry and be welcomed back.  Then what happens when a priest wants to "marry" another man?  I'm not opposed to ordaining married men on principle; Eastern Catholic and Ordinariate priests are by large solid. If it only applied to new priests going forward and it was made clear that current priests would have to keep their promise of celibacy, that would be one thing but this is something else entirely. Our Eastern and Oriental Orthodox brethren would be alienated by allowing priests to marry after ordination...this would be decried as another Roman innovation.