RE: Priest Shortage ??
November 24, 2017 at 11:52 am
(This post was last modified: November 24, 2017 at 11:57 am by Pat Mustard.)
(November 23, 2017 at 1:03 pm)Fireball Wrote: I heard a guest priest maunder about this back in the '90s, when I was a church goer. It appears not to have changed much, in terms of fewer priests. The celibacy is something that wasn't originally required. Hell, there were popes with big families!
They made priests celibate in the 1300's because parishes were being passed from father to son to grandson.
(November 23, 2017 at 9:58 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(November 23, 2017 at 10:52 am)vorlon13 Wrote: "Shortage" Wololo ?
God wants a thousand priests in Ireland, God HAS a 1000 priests in Ireland.
It's heretical to criticize His Plan. Seriously.
Well, maybe he has to have them imported from a nation that hasn't been hit by the scandals of a church that's been exposed for what it is, and where the idiot of the family is still expected to be dragged into the priesthood to keep him from doing any damage to the gene pool.
In Ireland the priesthood was for the clever son (provided he wasn't son to a doctor or lawyer). The idiot got to labour on the farm, or become a nun if a daughter.
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