text: "Those churches are totally different in terms of how and what parishes do.  Most of the married priests have full time other jobs, unrelated to being priests!!!"
  
  
  Isn't that how the Christian communities first began?  Did the Twelve and other disciples live apart from the rest of the people?  Did they dress any differently?  Didn't St. Paul write that both he and Barnabas worked to make a living [1 Cor. 9:6-7]? Weren't most the Apostles accompanied by 'believing wives' in their ministries?
  
  
  Maybe it is high time that priests live a family life, experience the joys and sorrows of family life, and work at a job like others do.  Oh, many of the Eastern priests' wives also work---[I know a few of them]---just like many other women do today.  THEY also have more in common with other working Moms.
  
  Taking a realistic look at the Apostolic Age---a married priesthood can be an excellent example of how Catholic families really live out a Christian life-style TODAY.