To: NYer; AnAmericanMother
He has not made a final decision about entering the priesthood. "I need to be ready spiritually," Webb says. "The care of souls is an intimidating responsibility." Intimidating, perhaps ... but if it's a novel concept to the gentleman, what was he doing as an Episcopal priest?
In general, I think the Church needs to be as cautious about ordaining former Protestant clergy as about any other candidates for the priesthood ... perhaps even more so. The concept that they're merely "changing employers" is intuitively simple - but far from the sacramental reality!
12 posted on
09/10/2007 1:24:55 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
(I dreamed that Horatio Hornblower was a Death Eater.)
To: Tax-chick
It COULD be that he knew all along on some level that he was playing in the local co-ed softball league, and now he's come up to the majors and is playing for keeps.
(I had more than an inkling a long time before I migrated across the Tiber.)
13 posted on
09/10/2007 1:40:31 PM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
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