An interesting video. When I was a young Anglican, I live with a married Anglo-Catholic priest, his wife and their three children. I was considering the Anglican priesthood myself. One day, Father stumbled down the stairs, all bleary eyed, on his way to an emergency sick call, possibly to administer the Last Rites. He looked at me and asked, 'Are you sure you want to be a priest?'
Having gone through Orthodoxy on my way to the Catholic Church, and technically being Eastern Rite, I have absolutely no problem with a married Priesthood in the Eastern Churches. What I have a problem with is the people who are agitating for a change in the thousand year discipline of the Western Church.
I guarantee you that first, it will be ordaining married men. Then it will be allowing Priests to marry (something that no Church, East or West, has ever allowed), married Bishops, and eventually agitation for female 'priests'.
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