Are you telling me the number of priests in the US is so low that the Church is suffering from the immigration policies?
Quote:Catholic churches losing priests to deportation nationwide and here in the Ozarks
Catholic churches across the United States and even right here in the Ozarks are struggling to keep their foreign-born priests due to a nationwide Visa backlog.
It’s an immigration issue impacting everyone, according to the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Roman Catholic Diocese Bishop Edward Rice.
“Ninety percent of our dioceses in the United States are dealing with this because we have priests from either Africa, India, or South America, so we’re all going through this,” Bishop Rice said.
Saint Leo the Great Catholic Church in Ava, Mo., lost its priest in April. The priest was in charge of five parishes in the Ozarks.
Bishop Rice said the dioceses have been working hard to fix this problem, but there’s not much that can be done right now.
“I’ve been told by political offices like Senator Hawley’s office. He was very kind to reach out to me when we requested some help. They said they’re still working on (Visa) applications from 2022,” Bishop Rice said.
Saint Leo Church eventually got a full-time priest back in July. However, since he’s the only priest in five parishes, masses have been consolidated.
https://www.ky3.com/2024/07/23/catholic-...re-ozarks/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
