July 27, 1998
Helen Weals’ July 14 letter "St. Paul Is No Marriage Expert” reminds me of my college days at Duquesne University many years ago.
A philosophy minor, I had to take a course called "The Nature of Marriage,” which just happened to be taught by a Father Koren, a goateed member of the Holy Ghost Fathers and a renowned philosophy professor. Inevitably, someone in the class finally asked Fr. Koren the obvious question: How could a Catholic priest presume to know anything about marriage when he was by profession a celibate?
To which Fr. Koren stroked his goatee and said, in his thick Dutch accent, "I never laid an egg, but I know a bad one when I see it.”
Case closed.
JACK O’NEIL
Sewickley