Religious life and loneliness

[UnityofTrinity]

For our clergy members, do you feel a sense of loneliness in your life because of your vocation?

 

[kmuestwin]

 

[pollycarp]

Study in 2011 said priests are among the happiest.
ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/us-catholic-priests-happy-life-and-ministry-study

(I wish priests could be married, just because I think it’s healthier. Married men live longer research says. I cringed one day when I heard a priest on the radio say how he stopped for fast food. Whereas if he’d had a wife, he’d be eating his vegetables ) imho.

 

[DexUK]

I’m a single man, who’d rather like to be a priest and I don’t eat junk food! I wouldn’t either, since it more often than not contains a certain food type that I recently discovered I’m allergic to, so I do tend to eat healthily regardless. I haven’t met any priests who eat junk either, since junk food tends to be more expensive overall than preparing food from ingredients and priests in the UK live on a pittance…

 

[TiggerS]

Had a few meals at our parish priest’s residence and he cooked. He would have to be one of the most health conscious people I know and a jolly good cook. He quite often regularly dines out in the homes of parishioners.
A married priesthood might perhaps solve some difficulties and I think perhaps that it might create some.

 

[Hopemercy]

The divorce rate among married episc ministers is very high.

In idealising marriage, the problems tend to be sidelined? Especially as women have careers etc these days.