Posted on 08/06/2024 10:08:03 AM PDT by ebb tide
Only one person is studying to become a Catholic priest in Dublin, reports TheTimes.com (August 4).
Father Séamus McEntee, vocations director for the Dublin archdiocese, said the low number of applicants to the priesthood was indicative of a wider crisis of faith.
The Archdiocese of Dublin has more than one million Catholics (out of a total population of 1.6 million). Ireland was once one of the most Catholic countries in the world.
Homosexual scandals within the hierarchy and the clergy destroyed the moral credibility of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
I love the cartoon. Yesterday, I pointed out that in the Seattle area there is now one priest for every two or three churches. When I was a kid, my parish had three full-time priests and several others who would pitch-in from time to time: Father Damien, Father Arnold, Father Philip, Father Christopher, Father Meinrad, Father Thaddeus, and a couple of others I can’t recall at the moment.
One of the best homilies I ever heard was given by an African priest in Ireland. Intelligent, deep, Biblical, teaching, challenging.
Not “God loves you in a very special way.”
May God send the West missionaries to rekindle the Faith.
o, how the mighty have fallen.
Reverse VatII and return to TLM.
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