Once in a while the spectre - as it is often made out to be - of allowing married priests to be ordained into the Catholic Church rears its head. We seem to be at one of those juntures again, with the Archbishop of Malta having suggested recently that it is time to end celibacy for Catholic priests given all the problems that have been attributed to it.
The reactions to such an idea tend to populate two ends of the spectrum. One view on whether married priests should be allowed is “Absolutely! This will save the Church, it will bring in thousands of new men to be priests and hopefully will be the precursor to women priests, gay marriages and full-scale liberalisation of the Church”.
