21.   The church ban on marriage sometimes leads priests to deny or abandon children, married priests charge.

22.   The Eastern rite churches with allegiance to Rome allow married priests.

23.   The indictment says Jones, a married priest then serving in Russellville, Ky., had an affair of several years with the parish housekeeper, a married woman.

24.   These churches follow many practices of the Orthodox faith, including allowing married priests, but acknowledge the authority of the pope.