[nickcarraway]

Yes, being a priest is a well regarded vocation.(or should be) But, at least in Catholic teaching, everyone can have an equally valid vocation. Priests are necessary, but if you read the Catechism, the married life is a wonderful vocation as well. And, whatever society may say, being single is does not make one inferior. Does the fact that a man cannot have children, ``alienate'' him from family life?

[Poohbah]

Does the fact that a man cannot have children, ``alienate'' him from family life?

To a certain extent...yes.

I have gotten counsel as to what I should do in a complex situation from my spiritual advisor. Said counsel was eminently sound from a purely theological perspective...

...but I could not act on it due to the duties of my station in life as husband and father.