If you want to be a priest, you need to answer some tough questions.
Well, yeah. I would hope so.
And thanks, Bro. Jay, for the link.
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I read this a day or two ago and snickered over this paragraph:
So many problems with this. Where to start? How about with the whole notion that gays have somehow infiltrated the Catholic priesthood and brought this “gay culture” into it, thus leading to the pedophilia scandals?
“More or less separate”? Isn’t that like “more or less pregnant”?
Dr. Palumbo is talking about one very small seminary, taking in only a handful of aspirants each year.
A seminary of such a small size is not viable, either academically or financially. I’m surprised that the various dioceses in the area don’t combine. Turf pride, perhaps?
But still, thank the Lord that there are no “gay men” there.
What about the heterosexual pedophiles?
That there is sexual abuse is not the only issue. It is the cover-ups that have stained the Church.
I agree. The crime is egregious, followed by another egregious crime, the cover-up.
I know a young man who entered a seminary at age 13 (boarding school) with intentions of becoming a priest. I wonder how that is all going to go on for him.
That was another thing I wondered about. I didn’t think it was ever easy for an adult to get into a Catholic seminary–I thought they liked to get them young.
Wow. I had no idea young men could enter a seminary (board school) that young.
Yes. The “seminaries” were set up on the junior high and senior high school level, to get a steady supply of priests. Of course, many dropped out when they discovered girls.
One of the biggest factors, in my opinion, regarding the decline of young men going into the priesthood was Cher.
She’d be on TV every week, in the slinkiest and sexiest costumes allowed on TV at that time. She was about the only “interesting” female on any TV program.
The young fellows would look up from their homework, see Cher slithering around batting her eyelashes, and immediately thousands of young men abandoned any thought of celibacy.
Cher, derailing priestly vocations:
I was harassed by a co-worker who wanted me to date his sister-in-law. I reluctantly agreed. She was a big fan of Cher, looked like her, dressed like her, with the makeup and nails and such. Me, I was a rocker, long hair, hippie clothes, she was not my type, as I preferred the more natural woman. So, we went out on a few dates. She did nothing for me. She was superficial and shallow, caring about her appearance and not all the world’s troubles, like I was.
Cher does nothing for me, perhaps even fostering the idea of celibacy.
Just not for long…
See, I always thought she was more real than not. That being Cher, not your date.
:)
“A priest can only give his life to the church in the sense that a man gives his life to a female spouse. A homosexual man cannot have the same relationship.”
WTF?! (That’s just one of many quotes from the linked article that made me say that.)
Is it time for women priests yet?
That is long overdue.
“Is it time for women priests yet?”
Yes, but only for lesbians, so they can have the same relationship with the church that a heterosexual man priest has.