It will depend on the bishop.
If he wants to pay for the seminary for an old man, and thinks he'll get enough out of him to make it worth while, he can do it.
I hear in the archdiocese of LA that there's plenty of widower priests, who were married and raised a family and became priests after their spouses died.
My priest told me the upper limit is 30 years old. I'm gathering it may vary from diocese to diocese.
I don't know if I have a calling to this vocation. I am seriously thinking about it more than ever. I'm looking at my life now, and I am 31 years old and unmarried. Even if I wanted to get married (which I do) I do not have a good enough job to support a family. And even if I had a job and a family, there would be the persecution of the world to deal with. Which has been pretty severe in the past. If I ever had to deal with the same intensity of persecution that I have had to deal with in the past, then I don't think I would even enjoy my marriage. Plus I would fear that my anger would be vented on my family at times. Of course if I were comfortable in my job then there would be no problems. But my experience thus far is that dealing with people at work adds stress. The current job that I hold is not too bad, but I sense the same things I have run into in the past.
If I were to tell you that my past is following me around would you believe me? It seems like I am being stalked by my past mistakes. People seem to know things about me that they normally would not know. And yes it involves Jєωs.
I know that persecution is not a calling to the priesthood/brotherhood. But these vocations would allow for me to get back to the same level of faith that I once had. I have not been able to get back to where I was because the world seems to keep dragging me down.
Let me ask you since you were once a freemason. Do freemasons try to enslave people? Do they stalk people and try to control/manipulate them? I know this is off topic but I had to ask.