I'm a married Catholic priest who thinks priests shouldn't get married
Because the Catholic Church believes Christians should be united, it sometimes makes exceptions from its own, even ancient, disciplines and norms, in my case celibacy. My family and I are not test subjects in some sort of trial run put on by the Vatican to see whether married priesthood works. Rather, we're witnesses to the church's empathy and desire for unity. That's what we married priests wish people would see, the Catholicism we fell in love with and made sacrifices for. And it's a sacrificial life, one my whole family lives, my wife probably most of all. We've never been busier, never more exhausted, but we've also never been happier. Even my kids make sacrifices every day for the church.
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