The Problems of Modern Clergy

"I think it is important if you want to build a Catholic community, wherever you're going to do it," he says. "It's just the exhaustion of having to be in the car for like three hours just to accomplish something like that." He wonders how much of modern clergy' unhappiness is because they don't have proximate demands on their life all the time. A father might feel emotionally distant from his wife or his kids but has real persons asking him about them every day.