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Fox News > https://www.foxnews.com/opinio...-catholic-priesthood I will be interviewed by Martha McCallum on Monday on “The Story” at 7 pm ET about my decision to leave the priesthood." "Last month I announced on my social media that, after taking some months of sabbatical to be with family and to dedicate more time to prayer and retreat, I had decided to ask the Holy Father, Pope Francis, to release me from the duties and responsibilities of the clerical state (priestly vows). Taking that step was something I had considered often and at length in years past and discussed with my spiritual guides. While I loved and thrived in so many aspects of my ministry, deep in my interior I struggled for years with my vocation and with the commitments the Catholic priesthood demands, especially not being able to marry and have a family. This week marks another step on this journey. I will be interviewed by Martha McCallum on Monday on “The Story” at 7 pm ET about my decision to leave the priesthood." ...... more..... *********************** * Diligentia Vis Celeritis * *********************** "Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy." - Sun Tsu - The Art of War "Fast is Fine, but Accuracy is Everything" - Wyatt Earp | ||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
It sounds like he's doing it the right way. He asks: Would you say a prayer for me? I will. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Not being allowed to marry and have a family is a MAN-MADE law and not biblical. If you ask me it's the root of much of the problems with predator priests and the Catholic Church's not being able to fill its' priest ranks. I read that it used to be that you weren't permitted to be a Rabbi UNLESS you were married and had a family, in the Jewish faith. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money |
I agree with you. And during the first 1000 or so years of the Catholic Church it was permitted. I actually know a married Catholic priest. It's rare, but not impossible. He was married, and I believe a Lutheran minister before he became a priest. He's a good priest, too. https://catholickey.org/2011/0...her-lockwood-to-k-c/ "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
One of the two priests at my Catholic High School that I respected then, and still do today, requested and received a full release from the clerical state from then-Pope, now-Saint John Paul II. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
I watched the interview and it appears that he just wants to have a family. He also said that Cardinal Donavon helped him through his decision. Good interview and I suggest watching it on YouTube. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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I've always like Fr. Jonathan, but it seemed for the past few years he has struggled to defend some of the positions of the Church and particularly the Pope. I guess that I can say that I'm not too surprised by this. It seems as though this was a very personal struggle for him and I wish him the best. It is good to hear him say that he is not abandoning the Church, just his vocation within it. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
One of the denominations - catholic lite - ( no disparagement intended) recruits ex-catholic priests as clergy. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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PopeDaddy |
First, Sola Scriptura is not biblical nor is celibacy a law, it’s a tradition. Thus, there are married priests; pastors who join the priesthood after converting from a Protestant tradition. Second, “Predator Priests” most likely have their roots in the sexual revolution of the late 1960’s and seminarian life not in their religious vows. Jews requiring their rabbis to be married before they could become a rabbi would be a tradition not a law. Finally, Jesus was a Jew and his followers called him Rabbi and he was single. Go figure. 0:01 | |||
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