Catholicism works every time it is tried. Whatever Cupich has been doing has nothing to do with Catholicism.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
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My diocese (Wilmington) might be lucky to get one man ordained every year. They have been importing priests more frequently and make liberal use of retired priests from other dioceses who were clearly renegade types in their younger days.
I used to believe that good men were raised up to become bishops and such, but seeing up close how priests who are good friends of mine (and outstanding priests) were given terrible assignments and shoved into corners due to their inability (or unwillingness) to play the game – the illusion was shattered hard.
Give me a small diocesan bishop, especially one that’s being ignored by the Curia in Rome, over any archbishop or cardinal. Being a good politician doesn’t make you a good Bishop. It just means you know how to play the game. I’ve known some reverent bishops that became less inclined to teach the faith after they became archbishops. You can see why Jesus disliked the temple priests.
IIRC, it was 3x that under his predecessor. Bp. Bruskewitz used to ordain about 4 men men per year in a diocese with about 90,000 lay Catholics.
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I’ve seen conscientious ministries fail demographically, but that’s less likely to happen in ministries which ignore the zeitgeist.
The lack of ordinations is “not a bug, but a feature” of liberal Catholicism. Feminize the church, kill off ordinations, promote female acolytes and then fill the gap with like minded women “priests.”
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Huh. Weird thought. Anyone know if illegals face difficulties entering seminary? “Vocations per Catholic” might be a misleading stat. More importantly, I can see potential priestly vocations going unfulfilled.
Bill is correct.
Sammons is too generous in his numbers for CHI. Remove the men from St. John Cantius.
Women have a place in the Church. A women’s place in the Church is not in the sanctuary.
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On the contrary, I would think illegals could get in the right side of the law again via seminary. Student or religious visas are mostly independent of family status, or lack thereof.