Intimate letters between Pope John Paul II and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka show it
is time to reform this outdated, man-made rule. The gospels are full of details that the Catholic Church prefers to
overlook. Like the references to Saint Peter, the first Pope, having a
mother-in-law, and therefore a wife.
The texts don’t ever reveal what
happened to Mrs Peter. Her husband may have been a widower when he was
charged by Jesus with establishing the Church. Yet for an institution
that continues to insist that its clergy are celibate, she is surely
significant.