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To: Buckeye McFrog

I agree it used to work out -— for some -—in your grandparents’ era. But “back in the day” (and I mean way back, 50’s-60’s AD) St. Paul said it tended to tear a man apart, trying to be all-out working for the Church and yet keeping his wife and family cared-for and content.


8 posted on 10/28/2019 10:11:04 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle... against the wickedness and snares of the devil.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The flipside of that is, as my father used to observe, that in Protestant denominations where the pastors may marry the church ends up gaining a HUGE amount of free labor from the pastor’s wife.

I have friends whose kids are ministers and this is undeniably true.


10 posted on 10/28/2019 10:13:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Yet the first Pope, St. Peter had a wife,remember Jesus healed his MIL.


16 posted on 10/28/2019 11:37:10 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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