Sir, - Patrick Kenny (September 9th) is concerned at the cost of a married priest supporting a wife and children.
This may have been a worry to the 12th-century Church leaders who brought in the celibacy rule, but surely today, when women are free to follow their own careers, this is no longer a major concern.
Of course, if the Holy Spirit was allowed to have his (or her?) way in the Roman Catholic Church, we would also have many married priests whose husbands were perfectly financially independent! - Yours, etc.,
Gerry Noonan,
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Middle Third,
Killester,
Dublin 5.