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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/bda716...4484007b5/ss_pope-laments-'hemorrhaging'.html
Okay so in this article it is basically noting that the Pope has voiced concern over the lack of vocations for the Church. I take pause with this and consider it a bit naive for a few reasons. One, this idea that there are so few vocations has been in decline supposedly since some where in the 1960s-1970s. Just as with social security being doomed from the start since it first came into existance there have been the sky is falling cries that it will fail. Two I dont think the vatican or the papacy, or other religious institutions ( being monasteries etc ) really consider what they are doing wrong. The comment either from the Pope or the author of the article is suggesting or insuating that people are just not accepting a religious vocation call or God is not calling people, and that isn’t quite true on either scale. When the idea is that everything is fine, the system works great, we have the best possible guidelines for recruiting seminarians or religious and or screening, or what have you. Or the idea is well, it is as good as it is going to get an such n such pope way back when with his councel did the best they could so how could we could possibly improve , an dont bother to try. Then nothing changes.
When seminary Colleges have class work that is just as overbaring as a regular university, and more emphasis if you look at the classes / college work vs the actual pastoral training it is very lopsided. If that same concept was applied to any military, it would be a very ineffective military, with emphasis on educating soliders on the history of the military and then one small year of practical training and then out you go an best of luck. Granted educating one about the past is very important to understanding and being able to teach others, but the lopsidedness could at least be evened out. Is my point in that regards. Again when comparing the military standards for entering, it is very low, a basic highschool education, and being in good standing with the law, not on drugs, good mental health and in relative good physical health and you are in and they will find a spot for you some where in the military.
Okay so in this article it is basically noting that the Pope has voiced concern over the lack of vocations for the Church. I take pause with this and consider it a bit naive for a few reasons. One, this idea that there are so few vocations has been in decline supposedly since some where in the 1960s-1970s. Just as with social security being doomed from the start since it first came into existance there have been the sky is falling cries that it will fail. Two I dont think the vatican or the papacy, or other religious institutions ( being monasteries etc ) really consider what they are doing wrong. The comment either from the Pope or the author of the article is suggesting or insuating that people are just not accepting a religious vocation call or God is not calling people, and that isn’t quite true on either scale. When the idea is that everything is fine, the system works great, we have the best possible guidelines for recruiting seminarians or religious and or screening, or what have you. Or the idea is well, it is as good as it is going to get an such n such pope way back when with his councel did the best they could so how could we could possibly improve , an dont bother to try. Then nothing changes.
When seminary Colleges have class work that is just as overbaring as a regular university, and more emphasis if you look at the classes / college work vs the actual pastoral training it is very lopsided. If that same concept was applied to any military, it would be a very ineffective military, with emphasis on educating soliders on the history of the military and then one small year of practical training and then out you go an best of luck. Granted educating one about the past is very important to understanding and being able to teach others, but the lopsidedness could at least be evened out. Is my point in that regards. Again when comparing the military standards for entering, it is very low, a basic highschool education, and being in good standing with the law, not on drugs, good mental health and in relative good physical health and you are in and they will find a spot for you some where in the military.
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