Posted on 03/20/2022 6:35:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME — Pope Francis said Thursday he worries about the day there are not enough priests, proposing the formation of laypeople as the remedy.
Addressing a delegation from the Order of Augustinian Recollects in the Vatican, the pontiff commented on their falling numbers of vocations, urging them to entrust their charism to the laity.
From eight provinces of Augustinian Recollects there are now four, the pope noted, meaning that “in terms of numbers, we are going downhill. And this is a reality that we cannot ignore.”
“There are thousands of explanations,” he continued: “That young people today do not see things clearly, that there are fewer young people than before — obviously, the birth rate — that Europe and America do not give what they gave before in terms of vocations, that we will have to look for other cultures and look elsewhere, and so on as much as you want.”
“But there is a question that we have to ask ourselves: look to the future, project the age that you are now, and say: Will there be two provinces instead of four, nothing more?” he said. “Don’t be afraid to ask yourself the question.”
While not resigning himself completely to the idea of a future dearth of priests in the world, the pope said the prospect worries him and steps must be taken to counter it.
“The day that there are no more Augustinian Recollects, the day that there are not enough priestly vocations for everyone, the day that, the day that, the day that day comes, have we prepared the laity, have we prepared people to continue with pastoral care in the Church?” he asked.
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Prepare The Church for the Day it elects the first Marxist Pope.
Catholics need to accept that Satan has their church and seek a new one.
The reverence is gone.
I now prefer my private prayer sessions with God.
We do not need priests to have faith in God or pray.
It’s because the Church’s teachings have been diluted by the West and subsequent popes after JPII did nothing to stop it.
Yeah, mostly because of Francis, single-handedly smashing his own church into total ruin.
“Pope Francis: Prepare Laypeople for the Day There Are Not Enough Priests”
Homosexuals no longer need to hide themselves behind clerical collars. Thus they’re not going into the priesthood anymore.
Maybe the next Pope might figure out that it’s time to get rid of the aberration of celibacy and instead again encourage priests to marry and have families.
Hey Frankie!
Prepare the priesthood for when it doesn’t have enough lay people thanks to your trashing of our Catechism.
Good job Papa in disolving the Church!
Well, it is one of two things: either allow the priests the option to marry or the oil industry in the US to continue drilling and producing oil.
Get rid of celibacy?
I’m not Catholic, but I see your point.
It may be the only answer. And it doesn’t have to be a problem, if done right.
Maybe if you hadn’t let the Church be overrun by perverts and pursue leftist policies. Maybe if you kicked out monsters like Pfleger. Maybe if you closed down the entire Jesuit order. Maybe if you became a bastion of traditional values. Maybe if you hadn’t held Vatican 2. Maybe if you preserved the Latin Mass.
But no - those things would have been unpopular.
Guess what? Now you’re unpopular.
Idiots.
Gather up everything you grew up knowing to be sin, and just proclaim it all fine in God’s eyes.
You know...
Make extra marital sex ok
Make homo sex ok
Make pedo sex ok
Make incest ok
(Well, ok, just proclaim there is nothing pleasurable you can do with your body to be sin.)
Make abortion ok with God.
Make lying ok
Make stealing ok
Make weed and coke and booze et al be ok
Just go ahead and make murder ok while we’re at it
To heck with it. Have the Pope just go ahead and throw the book away and say there is no longer such as thing as sin. God loves you and wants you to be fulfilled.
Then, surely more and more people will want to go into the priesthood.
Unless you eat me flesh and drink my blood.
It’s impossible that scandals not come.
-Jesus
Restore the Traditional Latin Mass and the Sems enrollment would change.
Reverse Vatican II.
Celibacy is not a problem for those men who know that sexual self mastery is possible and practice it. They exist.
Catholics (the church that Jesus left us, with Peter the first man in charge) needs priests to consecrate the hosts. We need priests to reenact The Last Supper, where Christ left us his Body and Blood.
Anybody can shake salt on a wafer, or just forget all about the Last Supper or ignore what the Lord said about it, but Catholics need priests.
You may not need them, but I need the Truth. Catholics need the truth.
FWIW, I remember hearing about there being a priest shortage fifty or so years ago.
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