Gotta let the priests marry. I would think that would improve recruitung about 1000%. Female priests too. Don’t know what they’re waiting for.
Sacred Tradition to be revoked?
There are married priests in the eastern rites, just not the Latin. And females - no, we have a different, but no less important, place. This is Sacred Tradition, what has been passed down from Christ, through His Apostles and Apostolic Succession.
Actually, in places, like here, where the seminary is good and orthodox and they do things as Tradition handed it down, we're ordaining plenty.
Thinking in human/worldly ways will not promote God’s plan one iota.
Sigh. What do I do to attract these types?
You seem to have some weird ideas about Catholic priests. Are you a Catholic?
Celibacy will survive; in fact it is flourishing. And there won’t be any woman priests either. Those who did false ordinations or those women who were ordained have been excommunicated as far as I know.
There is no such thing as “women priests”, just like there is no such thing as “men priestesses”. The theological arguments aside, female clergy in the Catholic Church would be priestesses, just like the men are priests. A woman who calls herself “a woman priest” does so for wacky feminist reasons as far as I can figure, because it really is just as weird as a man calling himself a priestess. Also, the word “priestess” has bad connotations of various pagan religions in the western mind, and these women are worried about folks associating them with that, which is pretty wimpy in my opinion if you truly think women can be clergy in the Church.
Liberalism has hurt the Church more than not letting married men become priests in the latin rite, or not having priestesses. Can you point me to one woman who wants to call herself a “woman priest” in the Church who isn’t a wacky lib on issues such as gay marriage and abortion? Theology aside, allowing priestesses would only compound the problems of the Church by making it more liberal because there would be more liberal clergy.
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