Vatican letter says norms on priesthood must be 'faithfully observed' (This is big!)

Catholic News Service ^ | November 30, 2005 | John Thavis

[TheSpottedOwl]

What a cool bumpersticker : )

[Claud]

LOL

[Dionysiusdecordealcis]

He didn't have any seminarians left! Toward the end there were some years when he had no new seminarians at all.

[Dionysiusdecordealcis]

Look, this is happening anyway. The orthodox ones are bursting at the seams and the others are dying on the vine. It's only a matter of time. The instruction and letter will hasten the process.

[Talking_Mouse]

I could be wrong but I sense that Pope Benedict XVI is following a master plan of his own design.

I think the Pope Benedict XVI is following Someone else's gameplan. I think He had this in mind well before the pope was born.

[RKBA Democrat]

"but how will it be enforced?"

Exactly. I'm not as optimistic about all this. Yes, there might someday be a real house cleaning, but I doubt it'll be on this Pope's watch. What I suspect will happen is that the reprobates will simply cool it for a few years on the hope that they'll be able to wait the Pope out.

"The mess" took more than a generation to create, it'll likely take a generation to fix. While I do believe we'll see improvements in the state of affairs in the western church, I'm not so sure those will come to fruition within the next 20 years.