Posted on 05/04/2023 7:19:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Fr. Fabio Rosini, the vocations director for the Diocese of Rome, said that the declining number of vocations is due to a ‘general’ lack of Catholics and faithful Catholic families.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The vocations director at the official seminary for the Diocese of Rome has issued a stark warning of future priest shortages, stating that the recent ordination of 11 priests for the diocese was “little to rejoice about.”
Speaking to Agensir on April 29, Father Fabio Rosini stated that the Diocese of Rome would soon run out of priests for the nearly 340 parishes across the city. His comments came in light of the recent ordination of 11 new priests for the Diocese of Rome, who came from the diocesan seminary – the Pontifical Major Seminary of Rome – and the Rome-based seminary for the Neocatechumenal Way.
The Pontifical Major Seminary – which is home to artwork by the now infamous Father Marko Rupnik – currently counts 35 seminarians for the diocese, with an additional 13 seminarians training there for other dioceses around Italy. The Diocese of Rome is home to over 330 parishes, which serve around 3 million Catholics.
Rosini stated that the problem was not a lack of vocations per se, but a wider lack of practicing Catholics: “it is not vocations that are lacking, it is not seminarians who are in short supply, but the great absentees are precisely Christians in general.”
Having now served as vocations director of the Diocese of Rome for 12 years, Rosini warned that the current trend of low numbers of new ordinands, coupled with growing numbers of retiring priests, “means that in a few years we will no longer have enough priests for the parishes.”
Rosini argued that Rome had been experiencing low numbers of seminarians...........
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Keep attacking true devotions like the Church has done for 50 years and see if it improves.
All thanks to Jorge. He's probably the only one rejoicing. He has not one good word to say about priests.
Vocations were declining long before the current pope - the decline goes back to VII. PJPII was a failure when it came to restoring the church, the most overrated global figure of my lifetime.
It’s time to allow priests to marry if they wish to.
A priest who was hearing her confessions?
If a priest began dating a member of his parish, the appropriate thing for the young lady to do would be to consult other clergy in that church, not someone she would be personally involved with.
If my daughter said her fiance was a priest or reverend, provided he was a kind, sincere and honest person, it would be an honor and a blessing to have someone like that wish to join our family.
How comfortable would you be in confessing your sins to your son-in-law, who is priest?
How about your wife confessing to him. All while knowing he is going home to your daughter that he has married?
So you've planned ahead? You and Bergoglio think alike.
As I stated in the first part of my previous response, in such circumstances, I would not see that particular priest for such personal consultation. I may even go to another parish entirely, so my privacy remains private more easily.
Read the book of Hebrews chapter 10. Human priesthood has been superseded by Christ Himself.
The Roman additions to scripture are shibboleth.
What exactly is “personal consultation”?
Can’t you go to a shrink for that?
Maybe you should consider actually understanding Hebrews when you read it. The “priesthood” it’s talking about is the Jewish Levitical priesthood. That’s what it’s calling “obsolete”. The whole point of the book is the superiority of the Christian Covenant over the Mosaic Covenant.
I probably didn’t use the correct phrase for the act of going to confession. I haven’t thought of the Catechism’s description of that sacrament in quite some time. Probably not since the Johnson Administration.
A Marxist Pope will do that.
Show me a married priest that works the hours of a celibate priest and still has a good marriage and non-dysfunctional kids.
The Church is his bride.
Thinking you’re not Catholic. No need to respond one way or another, not trying to provoke.
Boy thd anti Catholics just jump on the first open thread they can to slam the Church.
Maybe they ought to question their own dying enrollment. And their pastors can marry.
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