Since I retired as Bishop of Portsmouth in 2012, I have been regularly engaged in hugely rewarding supply work in my home diocese of Clifton, filling in for priests who are sick or who need a break.Each day, I offer a prayer of thanksgiving that I am no longer involved in the difficult task of appointing priests to pastoral care and duties in the parishes, when there simply are not enough priests to go round. I recently became involved in a minor way in the work of the Movement for Married Clergy and I am increasingly convinced that, sooner rather than later, the Church in this country and, as it seems from your correspondence columns, further afield, will rightly have to move towards the ordaining of married men.Many times a day as I pray the Our Father, I am struck by the words “G