Married man considers turn as Catholic priest

But Good Housekeeping and Mother's Day had to cover it . . . because the seminaries weren't!

You have to be a pretty tough cookie to be a minister's wife. My grandfather-in-law was a Methodist minister - a good one. He was a "visiting fireman" who specialized in saving churches that were at their last gasp. He would come in, clean up the finances, hold a revival, get a bunch of new members signed up . . . and then the Conference would transfer him again! My grandmother-in-law was a tough old lady -- a bit grim, but who could blame her?

I just hope we don't get too dependent on the ol "pastoral provision". It's the easy way out of the "priest shortage".(The "shortage" is debatable to some..I am of the position that there is perhaps a shortage of "riteous priests").

However, the greater problem I see is the "nun shortage." We need more holy women in the church. Whatever the solution will be, the succesfull effort will involve brining both the sexes back into religious life. It will be a massive re-awakening for everyone.

**Cindy Webb says if Phil chooses the priesthood, “God will work out the details.”

She was raised Catholic and converted to the Episcopal Church for Phil after they married.

“I felt our family should all be together in one place,” Cindy Webb says. “Phil and I have not been on the same timetable. We’ve had to kind of wait for each other.”**

God bless this wife and her support of her husband!

Even as a married Protestant minister, Webb said one is always robbing time from one vocation for the sake of the other.

So just how many hours a day does a Catholic priest work on average?

Definitely a convert! Just not yet a priest according to the article.

I guess the wife would be a revert, however.

Married man considers turn as Catholic priest

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Wow, I thought priest's were human beings that needed sleep, food, recreation and time with family. I wasn't aware they cut all ties with parents and siblings when they became priests. Gee, you learn all kinds of stuff on FR.

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