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To: wardaddy
are all seminaries feeling such a crunch I wonder?

I don’t know really.

But I suspect that they are.

I understand the Churches reasons for the vows of Celibacy but think the only solution to these problems is to permit Priest to wed.

Had it not been for those vows I may have been a Priest myself.

I have not read anything official but I have heard rumors that the Church will not ordain anyone over the age of forty. That to me seems short sighted given the reality the Church now faces.

44 posted on 07/16/2007 11:32:29 PM PDT by Pontiac (Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
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To: Pontiac
but think the only solution to these problems is to permit Priest to wed.

A specious argument at best. The "let them marry and this won't happen" argument is disproved by the facts:

Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers

have not read anything official but I have heard rumors that the Church will not ordain anyone over the age of forty.

Incorrect.

54 posted on 07/17/2007 4:15:51 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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