Posted on 07/22/2006 7:06:59 AM PDT by NYer
Aw dang, Jeff, you caught us red-handed!Trying to Hook More Youths on Priesthood
In this era of Eminem and Britney Spears, of sexy sitcoms and sexier commercials, of high-speed Internet and instant gratification, a life of celibacy devoted to God can be a hard sell to a teenager.
So as the nation's Roman Catholic leaders gathered recently and watched a video called "Fishers of Men," designed to draw young men to the priesthood, they had good reason to worry about the future of their chosen way of life.
Church leaders have long been aware of the statistics. There are now about 43,000 Catholic priests in America, down from more than 58,000 in 1965. As the U.S. Catholic population has risen to about 70 million, more churches have had to share priests.
What receives less attention is that the men who go into the seminary generally don't do so until later in life. The average age of newly ordained priests was 36 last year, up from 28 in the 1960s and 26 in the 1940s.
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Observers of vocational trends say more effort is needed now because of smaller families, with parents who want grandchildren; a secularized culture wary of lifetime commitment and celibacy; Catholic assimilation in America; and increased family mobility, which detracts from parish loyalties. [More...]
Dear marajade,
"'Should the law then permit abortion in only those cases where a woman has a legitimate medical reason?'
"Yes. That's an abortion law restriction I would like to see be."
Then why do you say that you support Roe v. Wade, as Roe, along with Doe, permit just about any abortion at any time?
sitetest
That poster introduced a personal attack into the thread. Look at some of my posts history and I believe you'll get a better understanding.
All this stuff about abortion and homosexuality is OT in this thread.
Unless you want to address the article I will not post to you anymore in this thread.
HUH??? Please provide what you are talking about.
I support Roe v. Wade in that it legalizes abortion in that I would also like to see abortion being restricted for medical necessary reasons only. Do you need more clarification than that? Again, abortion is OT.
Dear marajade,
Abortion was legal in varying degrees in many states in the United States before Roe. Abortion was legal for medical necessity in pretty much every state of the United States before Roe.
Roe didn't legalize abortion for "medically-necessary" abortions.
Roe legalized all abortions.
Do you support Roe?
sitetest
I've read the whole thread and I have a very good understanding of what's going on here, who is being consistent, and who is not.
Oh.. I beg to differ. You, almost on a daily basis over the last couple of weeks, have jumped into threads decrying the celibacy of the priesthood and demanding our priest should marry and have children. Yet.. you hold a different standard for yourself about children and following commandments from the Bible.
Unless you want to address the article I will not post to you anymore in this thread.
I've addressed it and then some. Don't attack our priests when you can exempt yourself from biblical mandates.
"Don't attack our priests when you can exempt yourself from biblical mandates."
Can't read the Bible and see its not being followed and someone is pointing it out? Too bad.
BTW, what commandments am I not following from the Bible?
Dear marajade,
No answer to #146?
sitetest
I've answered it enough.
Dear marajade,
You've answered it with internally contradictory replies.
Roe wasn't needed to permit abortions for "medical necessity," otherwise known as "therapeutic abortions." They were mostly already legal.
Roe made legal all other abortions.
Do you support Roe?
sitetest
I don't know the case history of Roe v Wade. I do support there are medical necessary reasons where abortion may be necessary.
Dear marajade,
"I don't know the case history of Roe v Wade."
Then, when you say, "I support Roe," we really shouldn't conclude that you actually support Roe. Am I getting that right?
sitetest
Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum,
Dominum Josephum
Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Ratzinger
qui sibi nomen imposuit Benedictum XVI
What diff does it make? And again, abortion of OT.
Dear marajade,
In that you've made adherence to biblical commandments (at least as you interpret them) an issue here, I think that adherence to "You shall not kill" is on-topic in this discussion.
What do you consider to be "medically-necessary" abortions?
sitetest
Pro-abortion...Thou Shall Not Kill
Foregoing having children when married.. Go Forth and Multiply.
Again, its still OT. When the child is dead in the womb?
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