On married priests, we should look east
SIR – I have read with interest Fr Ray Blake’s blog post (see News Focus, page 16) about lonely and demoralised priests. I remember in the 1940s already seeing depressed and lonely priests shuffling about their presbyteries.
I have lived in Lebanon since 1954 and was incardinated in the Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarchate in 1957. Like all the Catholic bishops, priests and monks whom I know personally, I simply do not understand the Western objection to ordaining married men as priests.
