13 November 2015, The Tablet

Welcoming back the priests who married


Dear Sir,

As the Holy Year of Mercy approaches, I am encouraged that the church is beginning to rediscover her call to welcome back those who are excluded. 

I wonder, though, if there will be room in this church to re-include the many thousands of us priests throughout the world who, having found that we were not called to celibacy, left the active ministry to marry. 

What a great witness an act of public reconciliation would be!

Yours faithfully,

Paul Salter, Hordley, Ellesmere




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