CURATES IN DEMAND
Rich Parishes Make Offers (Spacial Crepdt. LONDON, Fab. 28. The curate has never had it so food in England as at the moment—indeed it is sometimes auffested there will be a •‘black market" in them, says “The Times,” discussing “the plain, feet" that the demand exceeds the supply in the mattier of curates. It is natural then, says “The Times” that a rich parish in search of a curate should offer a rather higher stipend and more congenial living conditions than a poor parish—not that such material considerations carried much, if any, weight with the young priest who had a true sense of his vocation.
“But it is often pointed out the curate may be married and even have two or three children. He has, like other folk, to think of his family. In any case the attractions of an affluent and comfortable parish are easily fortified with arguments soothing to the conscience when a rich parish sets out with a determination to And a curate or curates to aid its incumbent.”
“The Times” suggests that in the course of, say three years, a curate on an average could be offered between 50 and 100 curacies elsewhere.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29760, 1 March 1962, Page 3
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