Vatican summit on 'theology of the priesthood' will look at questions raised in recent synods

In the ideal world there would be a celibate priesthood within the Latin Rite, but unless bishops want to end up with empty seminaries (most in the west already are) or a few effeminate seminarians that eventually get caught up in homosexual/pedophile scandals, drastic times call for drastic measures and the topic of married priests needs to come up.

There are just not enough priests to maintain parishes even at the rate that they're closing across the world and the average age of priests is increasing yearly (it's something like 65 in the US). Importing priests from poorer countries doesn't work anymore because even there vocations are starting to dry up.

We already have the basis for married priests within the Latin Rite: married Anglican priests or other Protestant pastors that convert are married (a good example is Fr. Dwight Longenecker). 23/24 rites within Catholicism allow for married priests and even St Peter had a wife.

I feel like a heretic writing all of this up, but I've realized that this is a reality that the Church is facing. As someone that almost went into the seminary, but ultimately decided that starting a family is my calling and will most likely become a permanent deacon, I feel that I would be a good priest despite being married or having kids. If the Church allows married priests, I and many others that went down the same road would be happy to become priests.

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