Married U.S. Priest Fr. Paul Sullins: "If There is a Difference, It’s in Favor of the Married Priest"

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/us/married-roman-catholic-priests-are-testing-a-tradition.html (10/22/19)

“The truth is that celibate priests often have ways of walling themselves off,” Father Sullins says. “If you call a celibate priest’s rectory in the middle of the night, you’ll likely get an answering machine. But if you call a married priest in the middle of the night, and he is disinclined to go out, he will get an elbow from his life partner, saying, ‘Hey, you committed yourself to this work.’  “I don’t want to say the difference is great, but if there is a difference, it’s in favor of the married priest.”