Not at all. The trend to divorce the priesthood from politics is quite recent. Even in the US, there was a Catholic priest who was a US representative until 1980, when Pope John Paul II ordered all priests to withdraw from electoral politics.Was always frowned upon. Some priests were able to get permission, others were not.
You have that timeline totally wrong. There were far more priests actively engaged in politics before the sixties and seventies. And it wasn’t from some distant “medieval” past or the post-VII era that the Catholic Church "learned it was a bad idea, but from disastrous political involvement by clerics in the first half of the twentieth century, especially those of a conservative bent.The interest in priests being politicians was largely a liberal thing from the 70s and 80s.
One can go back to medieval times and find clerics high up in the monarchies of Europe, the Church learned the hard way that was a bad idea.
Those orders came in the wake of a Jesuit being part of the Nicaraguan dictatorship at the time . .They both withdrew from public office on John Paul II’s orders.
Cardinal Richelieu . . .One can go back to medieval times and find clerics high up in the monarchies of Europe, the Church learned the hard way that was a bad idea.
He was. He was a bishop. At the age of 22. He had to travel to Rome to ask for a dispensation for being below the canonical age requirement.I don’t believe the infamous Cardinal was a priest… I don’t think he was ordained past minor orders.
Was he still practicing medicine after becoming a priest or only before? Because most who were doctors before seminary don’t go back to practicing medicine because they were away from medicine for a long time during the seminary years.I have known of a priest who was a medical doctor .
Principal, university president, etc.What kind of jobs can a priest have ? …
Like
Parish Priest
Teacher
Chaplain
Stuff like that…
Im just curious what all they can be.