The Gift-Marriage

The Gift: “You’re a married priest? I didn’t know we had married priests. I think the Church should let all her priests marry.”   Words like these have greeted me frequently since my ordination to the priesthood in 1983, with dispensation from the rule of celibacy. I always assure those who favor optional celibacy that both my …

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