There's never been any kind of principled objection to married priests in the Catholic Church, it's just a matter of what's been seen as the best way of running things. It could change any time, and, as I pointed out there are plenty of Uniate Catholic dioceses in places like Ukraine where they have always had married priests, the same way they do in the Orthodox Church.

In England the situation arose where a number of Anglican clerics, sopme of them married, wanted to become Catholics and it was agreed they could be ordained. A sensible solution for them, as well as a few extra priests on board. And, I suspect, a way of testing the water, so to speak.

And there are a fair number of married deacons, who do things like conducting weddings and funerals and generally taking care of business. There's one in a parish next-door to ours. He might as well be a priest, and I'm sure sooner or later they'll amend the regulations and he will be.

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But I agree this isn't really the thread for getting into that stuff - it's just that the drift took it that way.

The Black Madonna? That's an icon that just happens to be black. But the idea that it's quite appropriate to have images of Our Lady, or of Jesus, that is whatever colour or appearance is most approachable for people, that is as old as the Church. That's why Our Lady of Guadaloupe looks Mexican, for example.