"Lack of Priests"

[joshjacob]

Al Masetti:

This is an excellent post. Would be useful in the ongoing discussion on married priests.

My wife has worked for more than 10 years as a secretary for a non-Catholic church. (They wanted someone who would not get involved in their internal politics.) Based on her experience, married ministers have an obligation (or an inclination) to look after their families first and the congregations second.

What happens when the minister’s spouse becomes terminally ill and requires a tremendous amount of time? Well, the spouse’s needs come first and the “attending” just isn’t there for the congregation.

This may seem “obsolete” in the “me-first” generation, but one of the needs is for someone who puts himself (or herself) last. Complete voluntary self-abnegation. [Is that the right word?]

You bring up a very good point :clapping: .

 

[cheese_sdc]

Lazerlike42:

I don’t mean to be rude, but yoo do seem to be expressing a lack of charity which one would tend to see as a reason that you did not complete your seminary and which may give the impression that your opinions of it are not entirely accurate. Honestly I can’t imagine a person who speaks this way so quickly as a person who would be appropriate for the priesthood.

You know, whenever someone starts off by saying that they don’t want to be rude, they invariably are.

 

[Lazerlike42]

cheese_sdc:

You know, whenever someone starts off by saying that they don’t want to be rude, they invariably are.

I started off that way because it was unavoidable.

 

[Marian_Carroll]

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