What if they had more kids than YOU thought they SHOULD have..on a priest's salary of course. What if she wasn't Catholic? What if SHE had an affair? What ifSHE said the wrong thing to someone. What if she became an invalid and needed him to be there most of the time?
They would need a house for every priest that was married...are you going to GIVE more every Sunday for this.....I doubt it.
This is bigger than a sound bite.."Let them Marry".
I think Catholics would GLADLY give more. Catholics are the biggest skinflints in all of organized religion; I haven't heard a sermon on proper stewardship in ten years.
If Catholics came to expect "the cream of the crop" when it came to priests who serve them, perhaps they wouldn't expect them to live in poverty.