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I only clicked on this topic to ease my mind. See, I was thinking, this is can't be a RC priest because the Pope and the Bishops have routed out all of the homo's who aren't celibate. Wrong again.

Until the RCC allows married men to become priests and for the Parrish to interview the men who will be their pastor, the RCC in USA will continue to have a deficit of men, not homo's, willing to do the Lord's work. In my Parrish community alone, for about 4500 Catholic families, in 2012, it is predicted there will be only two Priests, and they will be near retirement age.

FA: In the diocese of Rockford, Illinois, there will be 11 priests ordained in May, 2006, and that will be the second class of 11 since we moved here from the Northeast in 2000. In that time, this small diocese has ordained more than thirty new priests not counting next year's 11. The secret is NOT marriage but a bishop (Thomas Doran) who is thoroughly orthodox in views and hardline in discipline. There has been one scandal in Doran's time as bishop and that was a young handsome priest who got in trouble with two high school upperclass coeds by touching them improperly and no more. He was suspended immediately upon arrest and is now where he belongs, in the hoosegow.

The notion that allowing priests to marry would keep them out of sexual trouble will be considered after someone poroves that marriage makes adultery impossible or even less likely. As to the Parish interviewing prospective pastors, we are NOT Congregationalists. The Parish will take whatever pastor is appointed and like it. We are NOT a democratic Church. Just as we do not decide what is mral or true by democratic vote, so the laity and most of the clergy have no say so in opersonnel decisions as it should be. May God grant that they never will.

If you like what the largely Catholic constituency has elected as US Senators in Kerry and Kennedy, then can you see what they would want as pastors?

If unavailability of sex at the rectory is what makes homosexual pedophiles of some men in the priesthood, then wives should take great care not to vacation alone or to go to another state alone to tend ailing parents, lest hubby decide to canoodle the newspaper boy while the Mrs. is unavailable.