Priestly Celebacy

[ricatholic]

Andreas Hofer:

Try to understand that the comparison of orthodox/heterodox is being made within the context of the Latin Rite. Also, people are just citing what they see as two facts: dioceses are often more orthodox/heterodox and those dioceses that are more orthodox tend to have more vocations. It’s not a logical proof, but it does suggest a connection. That reasoning does not imply that supporting optional celibacy is heterodox, only points to vocations trends in heterodox dioceses.

It is sort of like finding NY Yankee fans everywhere. Even people from Boston root for the Yankees, but if they want to go to a home game, they need to go to the Bronx.

The same with seminaries, the trend toward young people being orthodox is not so big that there are many more orthodox seminaries, but that the existing ones are attracting more men. Also, while we speak of yound men, they are not of the age of the real young men who entered the seminaries of the past who may have entered for different reasons than those who join now.

Peace