text: Other faiths are able to maintain a married clergy and marriage is obligatory for Orthodox Jewish rabbis. For a hierarchy so focused on the bottom line, the costs of keeping a family pale to insignificance when one considers  the billions of dollars spent in settling the abuse cases, not to mention the complete destruction of Catholic moral authority.  The pestilence of child rape would be far less likely to be countenanced if there were women living full time in the rectories and chanceries.