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Remember in the first footnote how I said there are 23 Catholic churches within the Catholic Church, *all* with different traditions?
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This is one of the times that matters. Only the Latin Church, the largest of the 23, requires priests to be celibate.
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The other 22 Catholic Churches known as the Eastern Churches allow married men to become priests, but not to advance any more.
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But even this is a bit of an oversimplification, because priests in the Latin Church *can* be married under certain circumstances;
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most notably, former Anglican priests who *were* married at the time of their conversion to Catholicism are not required to relinquish their wives.
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But as with the Eastern churches their marriage prevents them from rising any higher.
