Advocating the need for the Church to consider ordaining married men, Bishop Emeritus John Crowley writes that “providing regular access to the Eucharist for the faithful trumps holding the line in defence of a largely celibate priesthood” (Letters, 11 July). But celibacy is recognised as of value and an asset to priestly ministry. So why does masculine gender trump the Church’s need for priests, and why are not celibate women being considered? This solution could be less problematic than ordaining married men, and the advantages of priestly celibacy would continue.Most experts seem to consider that the declaration about “not ordaining women” by John Paul II in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (1994) was not made “infallibly”. If that was so, why cannot the