During normal times in the Latin Rite Priests should be celibate for any number of reasons. To devote themselves 100% to a large parish. To devote themselves 100% to God. IMO, Marriage with children and the Priesthood both deserve 100% of one's attention. Pius XII allowed married Anglican clergy converts to become valid Priests in the Catholic Church but that was by exception. If and when the Church gets restored to normality the married priests should be phased out, i.e. not continued or added to but the Church should retain the discipline in effect for the 1000 years up until the death of Pius XII. An ordained person should not get married after being ordained regardless of the times as should be obvious from the long established discipline. Married Priests must submit to what the next valid Pope declares in their cases or die outside the Church. The next valid Pope would not allow future ordinations of married men in the Latin Rite.
When we have a valid Pope, Priests who prove to be unworthy would be able to be ferreted out as the Faithful would be able to report any of their errors and or tyrannical acts to one who can hold them accountable. Those "ordained" in the new rite would need to be looked at in regards to whether they have a legitimate vocation or not but would have to cease pretending to be Priests until (if or when) they are validly ordained for obvious reasons.
The next valid Pope's first issue, IMO, would be the problems that resulted from and since V2 and "putting the Church back" in a secure and Catholic place in regards to the liturgy and Sacraments, and in regards to clarifying the novelties, errors and heresies of V2, declaring the council to be invalid of course. He would clarify the Feeneyism issue. He would clearly teach on all the controversies of the day and show anyone who did not like the teaching where the door is. The Church needs to be purged of the modernists. Then look to the valid Priests who claim to be Catholic and loyal to the Holy See and the needs of the faithful in regards to having access to the Sacraments. Obviously any validly ordained Priest who is a public heretic or not loyal to the Papacy would be declared to be non-Catholic and or schismatic. This is when he would either allow the Catholic married Priests to continue their apostolate as is, reduce it to being very private or forbid the Priests to fulfill their orders at all apart from extreme necessity. This after verifying the validity of their orders and getting those who need to be conditionally ordained ordained if in fact it is deemed that they should continue in their orders.
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