Some Roman Catholic presbyters count among their parishioners their wives, children

From the Press-Enterprise:

Some parishioners do a double take when they glance at the wall above the Rev. Gregory Elder’s desk at St. Adelaide Catholic Church in Highland.

Next to his diplomas is a photograph of a smiling Elder with a middle-age woman and two young adults.

The woman is Elder’s wife. And the young people are the couple’s children.

They have a ‘what’s going on here’ look,” Elder, 49, said of perplexed parishioners. “I normally ask them, ‘Do you know my background?’ If they say no, I say, ‘I need to explain this picture.’ ”

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