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Where do you get your numbers? Tulsa and Oklahoma City are still ordaining more priests per total Catholic pop. than most dioceses - they are very high on the curve. And you do OK & Illinois a great disservice if you think "farmboys" are the norm there. Plus you are a snob, sadly. I can't believe you said that. Do you think that having a Ph.D or coming from wealth and a blue-blood background makes a man a better priest? Jesus Christ Himself chose simple fishermen to spread the Good News. And He was a carpenter.

You well know that bishops like Bruskewicz are not "clubbable" (stole that from Neuhaus) and are dismissed as being too archaic and dictatorial (sorry if B. hurt CTA's feelings) by the other bishops. But they sure get the job done although not according to the guidelines of the progressives. Bruskewicz gets blackballed. He's not PC. I like him because he is not afraid to be Catholic and he doesn't care that he's not PC. Plus, he has a good sense of humor.

Bishop O'Malley is new and needs time. Looks like he is going to can the Talk about Touching program. He never read it and he is reading it now.

I don't wanna screen priests, who am I to do that - I just wanna screen the screeners who screen the priests.

Why do you think the progressive dioceses ordain few priests? For instance, what do you think is the problem in LA?

105 posted on 10/29/2003 7:49:28 PM PST by american colleen

To: american colleen

Why do you think the progressive dioceses ordain few priests? For instance, what do you think is the problem in LA?

Mahoney's a crook.

109 posted on 10/29/2003 7:53:15 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a dog or a cat from a shelter. You will save one life, and may save two.)

To: american colleen

Plus you are a snob, sadly.

I went to school with seminarians from Lincoln; they were ALL rural men, with one exception. Good guys, too, though a great deal more progressive than the reputation of their diocese.

One is a bishop, Robert Vasa, in Baker, Oregon. And, yes, he has an STD degree. Another, Fr. Jim Divis, teaches in the seminary in Lincoln.

115 posted on 10/29/2003 8:00:21 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a dog or a cat from a shelter. You will save one life, and may save two.)

To: american colleen; sinkspur

Bruskewicz gets blackballed. He's not PC. I like him because he is not afraid to be Catholic and he doesn't care that he's not PC. Plus, he has a good sense of humor.

All true--and he's a real gentleman, besides.

What makes Sinky think that B. WANTS a larger Diocese--with problems?

124 posted on 10/29/2003 8:08:08 PM PST by ninenot (Democrats make mistakes. RINOs don't correct them.--Chesterton (adapted by Ninenot))

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