if the issue is a priest shortage, there's an easy fix -- half the population is excluded from that job right now, maybe it will also lead to that. >> i don't know if it's an easy fix. frankly, for the first thousand years in the church's history, it was expected, it was commonplace that you practice celibacy. it wasn't codified until the 12th century. there's been a lot of talk since. cardinal egan, when he left as archbishop of new york, said maybe it's time to put it on the table. say you do it and you're a priest and you get a call to do a funeral on a saturday morning. then your wife tells you, but honey, you know, your son or daughter's got a soccer game. guess who's -- who that will get pitched to. my concern is the single priest -- most of them at least in a transition period -- will wind up with the burdens. the calls t night, the wife is sick, give it to joe. joe is single. and then you've got the order priest, but one-third of the priests, the jesuits, dominicans