[I want the USA back]

Then the church would have to pay a decent salary. Or the priest’s wife would be on food stamps and the kids would get free school lunches.

They could work during the week. Maybe as counselors. No reason why it couldn’t be done.

[defconw]

Catholic priests have a a lot to do during the week. They just don't say Mass on Sunday. Some of them teach, some are canonical lawyers, some counsel, some have more then one parish to attend to.

They also run schools, budgets, grounds and buildings, they have Diocese meetings, daily Masses, special Masses, funerals, committee meetings, personnel to supervise, tons of paperwork and then there is the sick and dying that they drop everything for.

It's really like running a small business. I went to one parish where there were 1500 families! The priest had two assistants and a retired and he still ran raged most of the time. I have a friend who is married to a United Methodist Minister, she says he's never home, you can't plan anything and even if you do plan something, those pesky congregants are always dying or having accidents.