tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post3508293986842832455..comments2024-03-25T06:39:42.081-04:00Comments on Bonfire of the Vanities: NCR's Father Daly fixes the priesthood: less Cross, more sex!Fr Martin Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01375628123126091747noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-30696565417549286522019-08-17T17:40:10.195-04:002019-08-17T17:40:10.195-04:00The math doesn’t match the Eastern churches, who h...The math doesn’t match the Eastern churches, who have young married priests. These men enter into marriage with the intent of becoming a priest at a young age, and they don’t always wait for children before ordination. <br /><br />The east has also always had celibates as both priest and bishop. (Married priests do not become bishop.) If a man is going to enter the priesthood as a celibate, there is considerable pressure for them to become monastic priests - even living in a diocese. Those monastics are the ones who later become bishops.<br /><br />Are there difficulties and trade offs? Absolutely. Especially in the West, priests are unable to serve the Liturgy everyday (due to fasting from marital relations for that day), and small/poor parishes are sometimes required to have a second job. <br /><br />Is this something the Latin church wants? I think that’s the real question. Because a married priesthood ambition that doesn’t face the 2,000 year real examples (proof! evidence!) of the Eastern churches is guiding blind under ideologies like the example from the critiqued article. ABehmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02303979417051074844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-42201421323510921832019-07-28T18:08:38.546-04:002019-07-28T18:08:38.546-04:00"Funny thing: I’ve never met anyone claiming ..."Funny thing: I’ve never met anyone claiming to know what the Holy Spirit “is telling us,” whose message from on high didn't exactly match that person's own preferences".<br /><br />So true! So true! So true!<br /><br />It's just like women who say they HAD to leave the Catholic Church and become Episcopalians because "God was calling me to the priesthood, but the Catholic Church wouldn't 'acknowledge' my 'calling'".<br /><br />Pathetic.<br /><br />Gaudete in Domino Semper!Richard M. Sawickinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-83761778150568198412019-07-24T14:57:58.065-04:002019-07-24T14:57:58.065-04:00I think the thought is that there might not be all...I think the thought is that there might not be all those years of seminary training but to ordain "worthy" men (who decides that?) without all those years. It is to destroy the holy priesthood and to make the Roman Catholic Church like a protestant denomination.M. Prodigalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05598092468839468735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-49428882344261766472019-07-24T14:29:48.541-04:002019-07-24T14:29:48.541-04:00Why doesn’t he become Episcopalian? Oh, he wants ...Why doesn’t he become Episcopalian? Oh, he wants to be a Catholic but doesn’t want any of the Catholic structure. So he comes over to the house and decides I need a door in a wall....rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661998350597126663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-12905807407049422912019-07-23T23:14:05.563-04:002019-07-23T23:14:05.563-04:00I am convinced that there is a group devoted to ab...I am convinced that there is a group devoted to abolishing the priesthood. They are the ones arguing for married priests, or women priests. You won’t hear them stomping simply for more (traditional) priests. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com