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jack63
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Just wanted to point out that I didn’t mean the following question to be rhetorical… “Why take a missionary priest from a region where there is 1 priest per 5000 lay people and send him to a region where there is 1 priest to 2000 lay people?”
Perhaps there are some good answers…I don’t know. For example…
-Sending an African priest of one ethnicity into a region of another ethnicity could be like sending a Catholic priest into the heart of Unionist Belfast in the 1980s…they would not make it out.
or
-There are concrete and realistic plans to reduce the number of foreign priests coming into Europe and the US in the coming years that I’ve never heard about.
Maybe the only reason to send so many foreign priests to the US and Europe is simply to protect celibacy…maybe it is really just that simple. I guess I’m genuinely surprised (and maybe a wee bit naive) that this may actually be the case.
Perhaps there are some good answers…I don’t know. For example…
-Sending an African priest of one ethnicity into a region of another ethnicity could be like sending a Catholic priest into the heart of Unionist Belfast in the 1980s…they would not make it out.
or
-There are concrete and realistic plans to reduce the number of foreign priests coming into Europe and the US in the coming years that I’ve never heard about.
Maybe the only reason to send so many foreign priests to the US and Europe is simply to protect celibacy…maybe it is really just that simple. I guess I’m genuinely surprised (and maybe a wee bit naive) that this may actually be the case.
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