more on the pope......

ok, so i was stunned this this morning.......when i asked my supervisor, a nurse about my age and a life-long catholic, about her feelings on the papal election....she told me she was disappointed.....that she was hoping for someone progressive...soemone who would consider the option for married priests....and/or female celebate priests......s i said.....i was shocked.....because this person does not strike me at all as liberal...she told me that priests were once allowed to be married, but that the church changed the rules when priests, supported by their parishes, started having 10-12 children......it was cheaper to have unmarried priests......but these days there are so few men who agree to the celibacy part and/or the unmarried part.....and many parishes have no fulltime priest at all......this i knew....the priest in danville has to cover another church 10 miles away between early and late mass......and jesus never said.......let those who feed my sheep be celibate and unmarried.......but you never know....this new guy might just see god in a burning bush some morning....and god may just tell him that celibate, unmarried priests only led to sexual abuse scandals...and were a bad idea.......one can only hope that this old guy can see well enough and hear well enough to get that message.......