re: #196 William Barnett-Lewis

One of the reasons I’m an Episcopalian instead of Roman. Priests can be male or female and marry. Much more reflective of the human condition.

Wife’s RC parish just got a married priest—he swam the Tiber, towing his wife. It took a couple years for the Vatican to rule that his episcopal succession was sound.

(We had a lot of married priests in communion with Rome in the 50s, then the Greek Catholics changed their rules. RC unmarried clergy is a management decision, not a theological requirement.)