October 27, 2019
A married Lutheran pastor said to me years ago that there
were times when he thought that maybe pastors should be single.
He often felt that he wasn’t giving his family the attention they deserved,
because of the demands of being a pastor; he either had to shortchange one
aspect of his life or the other.
From what I’ve seen on TV, doctors, policemen and firemen, among
others, feel the same way. Maybe everybody with a demanding
profession should stay single; or maybe they could get together and swap stories
of how they make things work; or, if they don’t make things work, maybe they
can figure out how to. (Throw some marriage counselors into the mix, for
guidance.)
The Church might realize that they’ve been right all along,
that married priests can’t serve both God and their families effectively; or
they might find out that forcing priests to remain single is no longer
necessary.
In any case, they owe it to the priests to at least try to
find out.
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