An interview with three newly ordained Irish priests

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Shin said:
Know this too: that if some pope concedes to priests a license to contract carnal marriage, God will condemn him to a sentence as great, in a spiritual way, as that which the law justly inflicts in a corporeal way on a man who has transgressed so gravely that he must have his eyes gouged out, his tongue and lips, nose and ears cut off, his hands and feet amputated, all his body’s blood spilled out to grow completely cold, and finally, his whole bloodless corpse cast out to be devoured by dogs and other wild beasts. Similar things would truly happen in a spiritual way to that pope who were to go against the aforementioned preordinance and will of God and concede to priests such a license to contract marriage.
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a priest going on public tv to speak against the Church is scandalous. It makes me wonder how some clerical have ignored the works of the devil. It makes me wonder if some man just want to become a priest with the intention to bring shame to the Church.
 
Undoubtedly the TV company had an agenda and probably told them the questions would be something different, or to wear civvies. The point for me is they were asked very easy questions to answer and, if it had been a trial to ascertain their Catholicity, based on their answers, they would undoubtedly have been “not guilty!”
 
From what I seen of the interview these young men were out of their depth. They we being pushed into a debate about religion that was only a pretense of a debate. You could see their discomfort. They were no Jerry Adams who have a lifetime of experience dealing with interviewers like this who don’t want the truth just trying to puff themselves up at the expense a of serious exploration of a topic.

The failure of the Church was not to protect these young FOOLS until they had developed a better understanding of the word outside the seminary. Did they have permission from their respective bishop and proper training for TV.

When you see this you understand the great need our clergy has for our prayers.
I can’t say for sure but I should hope that this doesn’t represent the Irish Catholic Church but rather the media going after the stories that play well. Maybe they will learn from this and develope into good priests but it wont do any good us jumping on their back too. But the church does need to look at its leadership in Ireland and an investigation is needed there.

I hope everyone who responds to this thread says a prayer for these 3.

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laszlo said:
In the US there are 40,000 active priest serving 80 million Catholics. The average age at ordination is 35, the average age of retirement 75 years, so 40 years of service. To keep the 40,000 number there should be 1000 ordinations each years. There are only around 400. This is overestimation, because some priests leave the service and some die early.

This is the reality. Unless miracle happens, which is unexpected, the number of the active priests will be stabilized around 16,000 in the US, way to small number serving 80 million Catholics, each 5000.

Neither the Orthodox, nor the protestants have serious problems about their priests/ministers.
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What do you mean by serious problems? Ministers get divorced. That can throw his church into quite a dither. Protestants aren’t the protestants of 80 years ago. In the 1930, they relaxed their stand against abortion, contraception etc. Now they have gay marriages, gay ministers, and women priests. They are not without sin.
 
That’s the great thing about Protestantism; 20,000 sects, all claiming to be the true faith. You can have whatever flavour of Christianity you want. If a Catholic priest runs off with a woman or robs the collection - big scandal. If a minister in one of those sects does it, it might get a paragraph in the local paper.

My opinion is that the Devil doesn’t care what you believe, as long as it doesn’t get you into Heaven. Believe most of the truths of Christian dogma but have just one big blot of sin you or your congregation have talked your way around and he’s happy. Job done.
 
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