Our "stance"

Ah, the life of a parish priest's family. Sometimes things begin to take a life of their own.

When people in the parish have asked me, in passing, about whether I've watched this TV show or that one, I've told them, in passing, that we don't watch TV on our TV. We only watch DVDs and videos, and our TV isn't hooked up to cable or even a simple antenna, so we can't really get TV. This is a personal choice of ours, and we've liberalized it throughout our marriage--when we first got married, we didn't have a television at all.

Paul told me that he was having a conversation with a parishioner about what television shows people like to watch--namely, our bishop's admitted liking for the show Desperate Housewives--and then the conversation turned to...."so, Father, what led you to your stance on television?" Paul was highly interested to find out that he had a stance! Seems that we also have a stance on meat-eating--we've never said that anyone else shouldn't eat meat--again, it's a personal choice. We'll share the reasons why we don't eat meat with anyone who asks, but we don't think that people should be preached to.