Issue of married Catholic priests gains traction under pope

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The First Ecumenical Council only required that bishops be celibate. Priests were and have continue to often be drawn from the ranks of married men as well as celibates. Priests being barred from marriage after their ordination doesn’t change the fact that married men have always been eligible for the priesthood in the East, as well as in the West for the first thousand years of its history.

And as you stated, the Gregorian reforms happened because of corruption in the Church, not due to theological concerns such as the nature of the priesthood or of marriage.
 
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Priests being barred from marriage after their ordination doesn’t change the fact that married men have always been eligible for the priesthood in the East, as well as in the West for the first thousand years of its history.
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Yes, and this thread is titled to address marraige, not celibacy. Today, it is assumed that those two issues would be equivalent. The fact is that historically they were not, so the idea of priestly celibacy goes way back before before 1074. That was one of my points.
 
Was that the issue a thousand years ago when priests could marry? I heard differently.
 
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