Nine new priests for Archdiocese of Los Angeles

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That’s great news,thanks Cloisters.🙂
Praying for them.
 
It sounds like a lot of new priests have been ordained on CAF in the past month.
Great news!
 
Cleveland got 3 new priests, Pittsburgh got 4, and Philadelphia got 6. Still better than one, or none, but I was really expecting Philadelphia at least to have a few more.

Edited to add, and Baltimore is only getting 3.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Cleveland got 3 new priests, Pittsburgh got 4, and Philadelphia got 6.
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It sounds good until you realize the same places probably had 6, 8 and 12 priests pass away over the last year.

At the current rate of deaths:ordinations of priests, the Church in the West is facing MASSIVE issues over the next 25 years.

IMO, the only way for the Roman Rite priesthood to survive will be to open it to married men.
 
Two new priests in the Archdiocese of Mobile; two ordained to the transitional disconate; sixteen total in seminary.
 
I’d take it as a joke 🙂
There are many,many vocations in some of the countries across the world that I keep hearing of and its very uplifting.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Depends on how desperate we end up getting for priests…
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Women cannot be priests.

We can never become desperate enough to become heretics.

Even if there were only 5 priests left in the entire world, women cannot be priests.
 
I notice with our new Los Angeles priests the trend toward ordaining older men. The oldest of these nine is 57! I’m not sure how many older men might have been turned away from consideration for the priesthood in the past. For many years, it seems the average age for ordination was about 27. Now we have men for whom the priesthood is a second career, or more properly, a delayed vocation. I think this is a good thing, and a positive step in dealing with the vocation crisis in the West.
 
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I notice with our new Los Angeles priests the trend toward ordaining older men. The oldest of these nine is 57! I’m not sure how many older men might have been turned away from consideration for the priesthood in the past. For many years, it seems the average age for ordination was about 27. Now we have men for whom the priesthood is a second career, or more properly, a delayed vocation. I think this is a good thing, and a positive step in dealing with the vocation crisis in the West.
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I completely agree. However, others on here have expressed that older people are a bad investment because they don’t provide enough years of service in return. (This is the same gunk you get from some private sector employers except they don’t say so out loud because they don’t want to get sued for age discrimination.)

I would posit that with the number of men who have been ordained young and then bail on the priesthood after 15 or 20 years, and the number of priests I see working into their 70s or even their 80s in some capacity, even if it’s just saying the daily Mass, the guy in his 40s or 50s looks like a good investment to me. Plus he not only has more life experience and wisdom, but he is also more likely to know what he wants and not be feeling like he missed out on something in life 10 years down the road.
 
Another deacon will be ordained in the diocese of Providence, RI at the end of this month-to the priesthood!
 
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