Silly Mozilla

My Mozilla URL bar has been acting mighty funny lately.
Sometimes, I start typing in a URL, and then a menu pops up of URLs that I have typed in that begin with the same letters. So, for instance, when (by force of habit) I started to type catholicaetestudines, the menu offered me a quick click to my destination. However, for whatever reason, Mozilla is consistently NOT sending me to the URL I am clicking. As amusing as some of the misdirections have been, it's often rather annoying. So, just before arriving here, Mozilla sent me to an ABCNews article from back in November. The article was about how Pope Benedict was going to hold a conference to discuss married priesthood. It ended with the following:

As foreign as the concept may seem today, the first pope, St. Peter, was married. 

Catholic priests were allowed to be married until the 12th century.

But Pope Benedict, a stalwart conservative, is unlikely to relax a rule that has been in place nearly 1,000 years. 

If married priesthood was the way it was done 1,000 years ago...then isn't it progressive to continue to advance priestly celibacy? Wouldn't it be a bit backwards to return to an ancient lifestyle that had been abandoned? (And, of course, the article overlooks the fact that Peter was married before the Church even existed, let alone before he was made the first pope.)

Comments

[Thomas]

That might make sense, but anything remotely associated with the medieval is automatically disqualified from being "progressive."

Yes, it is interesting to see who advocates primitivism vs. development and when, and when one or the other is considered conservative or liberal.