I think my most hated sayings is "DIALOUGE"  " BUILDING BRIDGES".  IS RIGHT UP THERE.  And let's not forget, "everyone is welcome"

Here is the thing about the Tay Tay Marshall grift --

He was a married Anglican priest with a well-paying benefice. Surprising to some Catholics, not all Anglican priests are married. Celibacy was once required amongst the Anglican clergy to be an Oxbridge don.

Most Anglican clergy who swim the Tiber are subsequently ordained as Catholic priests for the Ordinariate (doubtfully valid Novus Ordo Orders unfortunately). However, Tay Tay opted to remain a layman yet immerse himself in churchy and theological matters. He did this commercially with his books, JewTube channel, and the grossly overpriced and unacredited New St. Thomas Institute.

As a Catholic priest he would have had a modest income and his family would have had to live in institutional parish housing. But as a wowee-zowee Catholic media influencer affiliated with Trad, Inc. since about 2015, he brings in a six-figure income, jets to Europe at will, lives a bourgie lifestyle in an affluent  neighbourhood, and dresses like a WASPish prep. None of that would have been possible had he presented himself for Catholic [sic] ordination as most former Anglican clergy do.

Living the grift.

Don't some NO "priests" who don't take vows of poverty get fairly wealthy?  Couldn't he have become a married priest AND done his JewTube stuff?  Or would his duties as a priest gotten in the way?

Some Novus Ordo diocesan priests do accuмulate wealth, but this happens rarely from their salaries and stole fees alone. This usually results from good investing -- real estate, financial market -- and inherited family wealth. They are able to invest since things like housing & utilities are paid for apart from their own incomes. And these are single men, meaning no dependents.

As for Taylor Marshall, had he gone the route of Catholic priesthood, whether in a regular Novus Ordo diocese or in the Ordinariate, he would have been answerable to his bishop and all that means. We might regard Marshall's message as a watered-down neo-traddyism, but he what he says is alarming to your average Novus Ordo Catholic and offensive to Novus Ordo bishops and priests. He could simply never have become "Taylor Marshall, LLC" as we know and experience him. At best -- provided he would find time to do so apart from pastoral responsibilities -- he would have been another bland Catholic Answers or EWTN guy in a collar had he gone the priesthood route while also being a media personality.