Quotable Quote

“The idea that someone’s gender or their desire to marry and have children should disqualify them from the priesthood just doesn’t make sense in our current day and age...Our crisis could virtually disappear overnight by simply changing the policy around ordination...Opening the priesthood to both married and celibate men and women would bring new life and vitality to Catholic seminaries which have sat underutilized for far too many years.”

(St. Timothy Parish Council response to diocesan restructuring plans,
as quoted in the Hartford Courant).