Posted on 08/04/2019 7:09:26 AM PDT by marshmallow
“What’s it like to be a seminarian?” It’s a question I heard often enough before my ordination. A complete answer was always difficult and now, given the present state of the Church, it’s only become more challenging.
Like many others who closely followed last year’s USCCB meetings, I felt powerless in the face of these deliberations. However, after reading different interviews given by bishops over this past year I was particularly stuck by the comments from Bishop Daly of Spokane who gave voice to good faith-filled families. He said:
These families, that continue to encourage their sons and daughters to priestly and religious vocations, they do have a concern about what is happening here this week. It is a concern that we as the body of bishops, who leading them as their shepherds, need to take very seriously … so that they will want to continue to provide and to encourage those vocations.
Considering these comments and the question I’ve been often asked, it’s fair to say that I have a unique role in trying to encourage vocations both at home and abroad. Let me begin with a candid account of my own experience of seminary life, however limited my own witness may be.
To begin with, the reader should know that the majority of men I have met in seminary are good and faithful men who are striving to be authentic followers of Christ. It also must be understood that seminarians are always in a vulnerable spot. Many people in the parish view seminarians as being in some sort of a quasi-clerical state, while most of the clergy rightly understand that the seminarian is a layman in preparation for the clerical state. Nonetheless, these conflicting views make it a unique position to be in when one is a layman......
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The Church became alarmed when the numbers of priests were dwindling. So they looked the other way as more and more poofters entered the priesthood. So now you have Frankie and his merry band grinding away at the core. Just sad to watch.
“On the other extreme is the homosexual subculture. Having attended two different seminaries, I’ve met a lot of seminarians over the past seven years, and I know of ex-seminarians and ex-priests, who are now in same-sex relationships. In my first few years of seminary, I was hit on and attempted to be groomed on by older seminarians and priests. I know that I’m not alone in here: I’ve witnessed guys leave the seminary due to these specific issues.”
From article
I think it’s the other way around. The homosexuals infiltrated the seminaries and chased good, decent men away from the priesthood.
Is the Catholic Church is anti-homosexual sex institution with a homosexual sex problem among its supposedly celibate priesthood which it considers to be an aberration that needs correcting, or is it a homosexual-friendly, if not majority, institution that tolerates homosexual sex among its priests while realizing that it must keep up a veneer of not tolerating it?
There’s a kind of suspension of reality when this subject is discussed.
‘”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is Still the Rule in Seminary’
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell = Don’t Ask Don’t Care
I would think the church would discuss personal info with all seminarians in order to know who or what type of person is coming into the priesthood. That would include philospohy about sex, sexual history and how they feel about being celibate
My sister has a friend who could have written that.
He’s homosexual and it was so bad that even he couldn’t stand it so he got out.
Rome is the gayest religious organization in history.
It’s not the policy in the seminary I’m attending. You are asked specifically on the app about this.
I suspect that is universal among Christian seminaries...
One of the most ignored realities - in all denominations - is that the Frankfurt School’s Long March Through the Institutions specifically targeted seminaries.
They succeeded spectacularly.
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