The guy doing his job is usually sacrificing, Chuck.
His commitment and faith is a lot more demonstrable being a celibate.
Almost every priest I know allows himself some "compensation" for his celibate commitment.
That takes the form of patronizing lonely married women who come to him for "counseling" because their husbands don't talk to them; going to Vegas or the racetrack on a regular basis; playing golf at every opportunity; copious consumption of alcohol while hanging out in parishioner's homes because they're lonely.
Time Managment doesn't seem to be an issue with the priests I know. They've got plenty of it on their hands.
That takes the form of patronizing lonely married women who come to him for "counseling" because their husbands don't talk to them; going to Vegas or the racetrack on a regular basis; playing golf at every opportunity; copious consumption of alcohol while hanging out in parishioner's homes because they're lonely.
I don't think that indulging in escapist pasttimes necessarily follows from celibacy. Plenty of married laymen also overindulge in that manner in those ways.
Time Managment doesn't seem to be an issue with the priests I know. They've got plenty of it on their hands.
If I were bishop, I would demand that all my priests recite their breviaries every day, from matins to compline.... that would keep them plenty busy and would do wonders for their spiritual temperment. They couldn't help but become holymen and their flocks would be far better off for it.
In fact, that would cure a lot of things.