I have an uncle who is a Catholic priest as well as an aunt who is a nun. I have two friends that went to the seminary and dropped out because of the debauchery going on there. My dad's best friend is a priest who would spend two weeks every summer at our house.
I am waiting for a leader to come into the church address this awful thing and move the church into a positive direction. This is not happening now. Vatican II seemed to stir up this problem as most of these molester priests became ordained shortly after.
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“My kids are in parochial school and I still attend the catholic mass. Long ago are the days when nuns and priest teach at parochial school.”
In your diocese yes, but not in the last three I have lived in. Your diocese is overrun with liberals so vocations are few and far between. At every high school in the last three diocese I have lived in there are chaplains - many of whom also teach religion, Latin, etc. The same is true for schools on the lower levels. It doesn’t surprise me that your archdiocese is so bereft of vocations. Liberalism does that to a diocese.
“There just isn’t enough of them anymore.”
Not in your diocese. In other diocese it isn’t that bad. It depends on the diocese, the bishop and the people. It also depends on the faithfulness of the religious orders in the given diocese. If you have Nashville Dominicans or Franciscan Sisters of the Martyr St. George in your diocese, then you’ll have some teaching nuns right there.
“My problem with the church is the leadership that could have done something but did nothing. They also defrocked these priests and never contacted the police as these defrocked priests roamed around to molest again.”
And what will you do about it?
“I have an uncle who is a Catholic priest as well as an aunt who is a nun. I have two friends that went to the seminary and dropped out because of the debauchery going on there. My dad’s best friend is a priest who would spend two weeks every summer at our house.”
Who cares? I don’t care about who your supposed friends are. I only care about the facts and you’ve been wrong on many of them.
“I am waiting for a leader to come into the church address this awful thing and move the church into a positive direction.”
Oh, I see. You want someone to do what you want. Yeah, probably ain’t gonna’ happen. I suggest you stop wasting your time “waiting” for someone to do your will and just keep doing the right thing in your own life. If Cardinal Law’s resignation from his diocese, his apologies, meeting with some victims, priests going to jail and massive payouts don’t meet your expectations, then I think your expectations will never be met.
“This is not happening now. Vatican II seemed to stir up this problem as most of these molester priests became ordained shortly after.”
No, Vatican II didn’t cause this. Liberalism did.