“The ones who do go to Protestantism as clergy tend to go to the mainline-liberal ones such as Episcopalians, ECLA Lutherans, and Methodist, etc.”
it makes sense that they go where there is a liturgical approach to worship. it would be a comfortable transition.
amoreperfectunion:
That may partially explain it, I don’t think it explains all of it. Many priests left after Vatican II when the so ‘called spirit of Vatican II” never materialized, because the spirit of Vatican II was really not the Holy Spirit, it was a nebulous sprit that wanted the Church to conform to the modern world 100%, so many left for less stricter Churches with respect to certain moral questions that have been at the core of debates in Catholic circles [but there is a Rome that in end holds the line] and protestant groups, which are always subject to the vote of assemblies, thus issues like abortion, euthanasia, women clergy, same-sex marriage tend to split those groups. In Catholic circles, some men [priests] left over the Church not “changing with the times”, which explains a large part of the exodus and going to the Episcopalians, ELCA Lutherans and Methodists provided both a more liberal theology on those moral questions and a liturgical approach to worship.