Married men may be considered for the priesthood?

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Pope Francis has said that married men may be considered for the priesthood, if they are older men who have been longtime members of the Church.

The Pope said that older married men who have long been devoted to the Church may be considered to serve as priests in communities that have a shortage of church leaders.
 
There is a critical shortage of priests.
I believe that the Church must allowed married deacons to become priests or in the future there will be some parishes that do not have a priest.
 
There may be a temporary shortage of priests in some areas.
But there are also large numbers of men being ordained in other areas, such as Africa.

It’s a funny thing, but over the millennia there have often been times when there were large populations who, for a period of time, sometimes lengthy, would have to ‘go without priests’. The Church wasn’t forced THEN to ‘allow’ various and sundry ‘options’ in order to survive and thrive. What makes today any different?
 
In my parish, there is one priest. In a neighboring parish, there is no priest.
We have Mass once a day, except for Fridays and Sundays.
We are the Church, what we all believes is important.
There are ships sailing to and from all the time.
Change is possible. Anything is possible with God.
 
married men who were priests in their protestant churches may go through training to become Catholic priests once they convert. i know that has happened in the Anglican and Episcopal churches with several of their priests and probably Lutheran too. i am not sure about other protestant married pastors like Methodist,
Presbyterian or Baptist.
so, in some instances, we already have married Catholic priests. we have one married deacon in our church who I think
would make a wonderful priest.
 
With the current immigration political climate in this country, I doubt a priest from Africa would be welcome.
 
I believe that allowing married priests may be inevitable.
 
what?! we have many Catholic African priests living in the U.S. and serving as priests. we have had 3 in the last 9 years at my parish and i live in a city with a population under 100,000.
 
I have no problem with the Catholic African priests. I am just saying that the political climate is anti-anything except rich, white, and male. Or so it seems.
 
Unless you want to back up anything you say Pope Francis said with solid sources, and not what you think, feel, want or need, this thread means nothing.
 
YourNameHere said:
I believe that allowing married priests may be inevitable.
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And I believe someday, the Pittsburgh Pirates could win the World Series. But what I believe does not make it inevitable.
 
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The Pirates will win the series. I never thought the Houston Astros would win in my lifetime. LOL
 
You are missing the point.

Your link is not a link to an actual story. Furthermore, I do not get my Catholic news from a Christian news site.
 
In my dioceses, they are now bringing in seminaries from South America, who end up serving as parish priest here once they’ve been ordained.

It hasn’t been a bed of roses with them either. They have issues that bleed through in their personalities.

Jim
 
I like the idea of permanent deacons doing “communion services”. they are practically a mass, but without the consecration. they might be the alternative to masses in the future when there’s a shortage. When there’s a supply of consecrated hosts, they can be removed from the tabernacle for communion.
 
YourNameHere said:
With the current immigration political climate in this country, I doubt a priest from Africa would be welcome.
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They follow the same R-1 Visa process as everyone else. Unless they are seeking incardination in the diocese, in which case the diocese sponsors them for a green card.
 
YourNameHere said:
With the current immigration political climate in this country, I doubt a priest from Africa would be welcome.
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There are many African priests serving in the US. Immigration to the US is at all time highs. The ‘current political climate’ you refer to is against illegal immigration, not against all immigration.
 
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