[WriteOn]

You're right. My sisters kid announced he wanted to go into the seminary 4 weeks ago. His mom and stepdad practically arm-wrestled the vocations director for him. He's going against their wishes so far, but I don't know if he'll be able to hold out against the parental pressure. Sad. Very sad.

My sister is like stinky and thinks married priests and priestesses would be in step with the times.

[RobbyS]

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[american colleen]

I have a feeling if your nephew really has a calling, his uncle will help him out!

Lookit that though. An AmChurch family with a son who thinks he has a vocation! God works in mysterious ways.

[RobbyS]

The priesthood in Americab underwent a crisis in the eraly '70s when so many priests left. It was almost unheard of up to that time. So priests stopped recruiting, except for the minority of homosexual priests. The Church relaxed its standards for seminaries so that homosexual priests were no longer weeded out. It was a kind of don't ask, don't tell and its was presumed that homosexuals would keep their vows of celibacy at least as consistently as normal priests. Unfortunately, many of them had no intention of keepoing their vows. The laity, after all, had generally ignored the Church's teaching on birth control. Why were they wrong in disobeying the rule on celibacy?

[sinkspur]

My sister is like stinky and thinks married priests and priestesses would be in step with the times

I don't support women priests.

I also think it's rude as hell not to ping someone to a thread in which you're not only disparaging them, but you can't get their name right, either.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

My sister is like stinky and thinks married priests and priestesses would be in step with the times.

Our friendly neighborhood Deacon does not, as far as I know, advocate for priestesses, which is formal doctrinal heresy since the 1994 definition. Your sister is NOT a Catholic, though she may like to think she is.