11/22/2015
A priest, verbose and bombastic
Had a problem, urgent and drastic
There's a dwindling band
Of newbie priests and . . .
Then celibacy = unenthusiastic
We women were bored and nonplussed
His plea did not include us
For reasons unknown
- He has to get blown?
Church "magic" requires a penis
His pleas for our help sounded iffy
The church will need help in a jiffy
Needed: earnest young men
Kneeling, shouting "amen!"
The very thought gives him a stiffy.
-- A visit from the "vocations director" this a.m. They know that young men aren't entering the seminary - - PARTICULARLY to become priests. But they aren't changing anything. If the church would remove the celibacy requirement, (or- accept women - but that will never happen - ) they might have some success, but no . . .
They've got recruiting problems for more reasons than they think. 1) Even the young men who attend the prestigious Jesuit school in my neighborhood don't really believe. Many guys from that school have told me that the vast majority of their class was just going through the motions of confirmation to keep their parents happy. 2) And even in that all-male, Catholic student population, it's uncool to be homophobic. So if there are any devout gay Catholics there, they no longer believe that if they enter the priesthood, god will "cure" them.
Yeah, there is a priest shortage. I'll bet that it's going to keep getting worse.
A priest, verbose and bombastic
Had a problem, urgent and drastic
There's a dwindling band
Of newbie priests and . . .
Then celibacy = unenthusiastic
We women were bored and nonplussed
His plea did not include us
For reasons unknown
- He has to get blown?
Church "magic" requires a penis
His pleas for our help sounded iffy
The church will need help in a jiffy
Needed: earnest young men
Kneeling, shouting "amen!"
The very thought gives him a stiffy.
-- A visit from the "vocations director" this a.m. They know that young men aren't entering the seminary - - PARTICULARLY to become priests. But they aren't changing anything. If the church would remove the celibacy requirement, (or- accept women - but that will never happen - ) they might have some success, but no . . .
They've got recruiting problems for more reasons than they think. 1) Even the young men who attend the prestigious Jesuit school in my neighborhood don't really believe. Many guys from that school have told me that the vast majority of their class was just going through the motions of confirmation to keep their parents happy. 2) And even in that all-male, Catholic student population, it's uncool to be homophobic. So if there are any devout gay Catholics there, they no longer believe that if they enter the priesthood, god will "cure" them.
Yeah, there is a priest shortage. I'll bet that it's going to keep getting worse.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
