Imagine no priests to celebrate Mass

Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | May 02, 2004 | Dan Horn and Denise Smith Amos

[Investment Biker]

205 priests today 100 by the end of the decade, 225 current parishes.

[Stingray51]

Maybe this diocese has too many parishes. And / or maybe there is something about it that is failing to attract young men in the numbers seen joining some orthodox / traditional orders.

[ColoradoSlim]

Let priests marry, lose the incense and candles, kick out the queers. People in the millions will return, I'll betchya dollars to donuts. Shoot, I might drop by fer a good sermon myself.

[Incorrigible]

Yep... Got the sermon today that stated the above.

Prayers for more vocations (Conservative Catholics only please! :-)

[PRSOrlando]

Why would people return if all of those events would happen? That's completly changing the Church and going against thousands of years of tradition. I agree with the later, but other than that, the Catholic church (even though I disagree with some individuals in it), won't become another social club in America (I'm talking about as a whole, not individual parishes) - even if I become the last member in the Church.

Follow Jesus' model in celebacy and guiding sheep.

[Meldrim]

Goodbye good men.

[Investment Biker]

See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1128460/posts

[gcruse]

Follow Jesus' model in celebacy and guiding sheep.

You mean the same model the apostles followed?  Oh, wait.  They didn't.

[arkady_renko]

Shoot, I might drop by fer a good sermon myself.

How big of ya...

A_R

[Las Vegas Dave]

Heard a similar message in my home town (in NE Ohio), 30 years ago 1 priest for every 2000 people, today 1 priest for every 700, not enough priests for the parishioners, message was "...hope more would want to come into the priesthood".

[StolarStorm]

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I like the incense and candles.

[jonrick46]

The Apostles were married and had families. The idea of celibacy should be applied to priests who are not married. Priest should not fornicate. When they do marry, they should practice fidelity. Priests should stay married until "death do they part." By priests doing these things, they would serve as better role models for how we should live our lives as well as being "married" to the Church for all of our lives.

The Catholic Church is finding itself out of step with its true role in the community when it uses a model that may have served well in medieval times, but has no functional purpose in this global high tech age.

[Capt. Tom]

205 priests today 100 by the end of the decade, 225 current parishes.

If the Catholic church would throw out its heretics who claim to be Catholics, there wouldn't be a problem.

Less priests could handle less parishioners. - Tom

[sinkspur]

Yes. Pray for vocations.

And pray for discernment for those who guide the Church.

[MortMan]

You don't need married priests. Simply make the priesthood back into what it once was - highly orthodox, devoutly Catholic, and earnestly dedicated. Conservative diocese - where the lavendar mafia cannot set up shop - are not having nearly the same trouble as those which are so "inclusive".

[RFT1]

In Cincinati, a big problem is its Archbishop is one of the more liberal bishops in the US, a throwback to the 70s, and in diocese' and Archdiocese' such as this, there have been vocational issues for years. It is also sad because Cincinati if it had a solidly orthodox Bishop would probably be booming with vocations.

In any event, the crisis is not in all areas of the church, traditional Catholics are not in danger of seeing too few priests with the FSSP and Institute of Christ the King Seminaries filled beyond capacity.

[ColoradoSlim]

Friend my people broke with the Catholic church in mid 1500's and my Puritan ancestors broke with King James I in the 1630's and came over to America. So we ain't going to agree on church dogma. Today I'm just a sensible god fearing pretty dang conservative Presbyterian. I don't want to see the Catholic church turned into some sort of Unitarian tinkerbell parade social club, I want to see all denominations of Christianity including the Catholic church revived and strengthened. We will all need to come together in Christ in our own defense. In case you hadn't heard, Islam has declared a holy war against the West, it was in all the papers.