During the ad limina visit of the bishops of New York State in June, Benedict XVI asked the bishops: "What do your people think about the restoration of the tradition of a married priesthood?"
For some seconds there was an amazed silence. Then the Pope asked the question a second time: "I really would like to know what your people think on that issue." Then one bishop, Matthew Clark of Rochester, responded: "It is strange, Holiness, that you should ask this question, because we just had a synod in our diocese, where over ninety per cent of the laity voted in favour of a married priesthood." And the other bishops joined him in saying that a great majority of their faithful is in favour of married priests.
The one who told this story is Tom Fox, former editor of the US-American weekly National Catholic Reporter, and he did so at the annual conference of Corpus, the American married priests association, in Minneapolis. He said he had it "on good authority", which is as much as saying from one of the bishops themselves.
Ministerium Novum goes on to point out that the Pope would not have asked the question unless he were actively thinking of a possible change in the law. They also pick up a comment of his to the press two or three years ago: "If the Church cannot guarantee the eucharist in every parish, she must change the conditions for access to the priesthood."
Also, I found you can hear the talk itself on the Corpus website - http://www.corpus.org/category.cfm?Category=18 and follow the appropriate direction. Incidentally,Tom Fox actually says that one of the bishops told him about this incident.