To: Petronski
Many thousands every year?
Suuuuure.
Though you conveniently "forgot" to include the qualifier "for one reason or other" the fact is far more Priests leave
for one reason or another than are added to the rolls.
Using a single statistic "Priests who leave to marry" we can see a decline in active Priests of approximately 1,700 per year.
PRIESTS WHO LEAVE TO MARRY
Factor in deaths, retirement, for reasons of faith, "kicked out", etc., and it is rather simple to say "thousands" leave each year.
I await your documented rebuttal.
651 posted on
03/02/2008 11:20:32 AM PST by
OLD REGGIE
(I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
To: OLD REGGIE
Seventeen hundred is not “many thousands,” if that number is even accurate.
Death is not “leaving the priesthood,” it is death. Retired priests are still priests.
Your funny numbers did not stand up to scrutiny. You failed.
654 posted on
03/02/2008 12:05:57 PM PST by
Petronski
(Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
To: OLD REGGIE
PRIESTS WHO LEAVE TO MARRY AMEN!
My husband attended a Jesuit prep school. At the time there were 50 priests. Now there are two with twice the student enrollment.
Monasticism is not the way God intended men and women to live. It does not glorify God; it denies God's instruction to "be fruitful and multiply."
655 posted on
03/02/2008 12:14:12 PM PST by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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