Don't bet on that. The African bishops were not keen on the idea of sending priests abroad, primarily because, they said, THEIR OWN GROWTH would need those priests within a few years.
The United States is not the country in dire need; it is Latin America that needs priests. The evangelicals are attracting Catholics in large numbers due to the community leaders who have the status of being "ordained" ministers in those communities.
Nope. I just see no reason to pretend that this is some how open to discussion in the Church when it isn't.
LOL! It was just OPEN TO DISCUSSION, at the Synod. And, now that it's been discussed, expect the discussion to continue.
Sinkspur,
You wrote: "Don't bet on that. The African bishops were not keen on the idea of sending priests abroad, primarily because, they said, THEIR OWN GROWTH would need those priests within a few years."
Nonsense. There are numerous foreign priests in my diocese and no end to the priests from Poland and Africa.
"The United States is not the country in dire need; it is Latin America that needs priests. The evangelicals are attracting Catholics in large numbers due to the community leaders who have the status of being "ordained" ministers in those communities."
And yet vocations have skyrocketed in Latin America and will continue to do so.
"LOL! It was just OPEN TO DISCUSSION, at the Synod. And, now that it's been discussed, expect the discussion to continue."
No, it will not continue and really never started. A few speeches, unheeded and even derided by those who know better, is tnot a discussion.
http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2001/mar2001p6_149.html