What do you think Catholic priests do in the community?
I remember talking to one, outside church, and an alcoholic tramp came up and handed him a wedge of banknotes. When he had gone, I asked him what it was about and he explained: "Oh, you see, he gets his social security payment today and he gives it to me to look after for him, so that he doesn't go and blow it all on a one-night drunken binge. I give him a daily allowance each day, to make sure he buys food and not just booze. I do that with quite a few of them round here." That sort of thing is all in day's work, for the average Catholic priest in a big city.
It can get them down, too, seeing as they are celibate and don't have a partner to share it with, just other priests. They see a lot of the grubby side of humanity - and hear a lot more in confessions. And then they spend a lot of time with people who have just been bereaved and those who have just had bad news - terminal cancer diagnoses etc. The parish priests I have known, almost without exception, take Christ's example of taking care of the poor, the unhappy and morally weak fairly seriously. It's a tough job and I wouldn't like to do it.
