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praise be jesus christ german cardinal reinhart marx on thursday speaking to the suede deutsche saitung said quote it would be better for everyone to create the possibility of celibate and married priests for some priests it would be better if they were married not just for sexual reasons but because it would be better for their life and they wouldn't be lonely and then he also speaks of um allowing openly homosexual men to become priests he says that is to be respected and then this is not a restriction on his ability of becoming a priest now a lot of conservative developed catholics they kind of agree that yeah why shouldn't we have married priests wouldn't that be the solution to all the church's problems very interesting question i don't know if you've heard of father paul sollins says here he was a professor of sociology at the catholic university of america a sociologist he has been married for 30 years and has been a catholic priest for more than 10 years and this is a while ago he's a married catholic priest because he was with the anglicans and he joined the catholic ordinary you know anglicans who became catholic um in keeping some of their prayers and rituals and all that anyways fascinating he wrote a book called keeping the vow the untold story of married catholic priests he did a sociological study on married priests and and married clergy fascinating read but guess what he says married priesthood it's actually not the solution to all our problems not even the solution to loyalists check this out he writes the particular kind of loneliness experienced by a priest is not alleviated by marriage both the married priests and their wives felt isolated because of the limitations on their relationships with parishioners marriage didn't save them from loneliness it often precipitated it and again this is a socio sociological study you know it's got all those boring details it's thorough and he's saying look don't say that married priest is somehow going to fix any everything and priests who are married they're not going to be lonely it's simply not true now my conviction is that our priests the solution is that our priests have a deep faith in the lord jesus and a deep deep love for the lord jesus because remember our lord jesus check this out in john chapter 7 on the last day the greatest day of the feast jesus stood up and exclaimed let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink whoever believes in me as scripture says out of his heart will flow rivers of living water when you go to jesus you're not lonely he fills our hearts i'll tell you i'll give you a concrete example yesterday was a rough day for me i end up my day as i always do before the blessed sacrament then i went to bed i'm laying in bed and i begin...