Looks like a married Anglican pastor was recently ordained as a Catholic priest by a bishop on one of Spain’s Canary islands. Not sure how this stands up doctrinally, but:

The bishop said the marriage had the full support of Spain’s Roman Catholic Church. He said it was an exceptional case to favor unity between churches and did not in any way signal a departure from the Catholic church’s insistence that its priests be celibate. […]

Cutting off speculation that the move could signal some change in church policy, the bishop said the marriage was a ‘’one-off exception, adding that ‘’no door is being opened to the absolution of celibacy,'’ El Pais quoted him as saying.

I need to find a more detailed article about this, because I really don’t understand how they plan on getting away with this. There’s no such thing as a “one-off exception” when it comes to denying the laws of the Catholic Church. You’ll quickly land yourself a one-off excommunication, especially with Ratzinger (former doctrinal enforcer for the Vatican) at the helm. If it is truly a one-time thing, does this mean the priest can be married legally, but that he just can’t have sex with his wife, so that the celibacy rule isn’t violated? Seems doubtful that there would be such a glaring gap as this in the canon law. And what if he does retain his marriage, but can’t consummate it? Isn’t that also a sin to Catholicism? I don’t see a way out here really, and it again leads me to ask the question of: why be part of an organization which you’re openly flouting the rules of? Especially if you’re already playing for another team that allows you to do what you’re doing? It’s just weird!

If anybody’s seen a better discussion of this online recently, I’d be interested in seeing it.