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...three times for permission to enter a monastery; each time, the Archbishop would hear none of it. He did not want | Wojtyla walled in as a mystical recluse. Could not the young man see what God really wanted him to do? Wojtyla got the message. He would become a diocesan priest, serving the people directly, a pastor ministering to the immediate needs of the faithful in Poland. Sapieha ordained him in 1946. And thus, it began to come to pass...
Women now hold 85 percent of parish ministry positions open to non-clergy, but have made few inroads into high-ranking jobs such as diocesan chancellors, canon lawyers or marriage tribunal members. Catholics for a Free Choice, an independent group pushing for gender equality in the church, says women hold 19 percent of the top 5,400 non-clergy posts in the U.S., up just three percent from 1988.Post your opinion on theThe Sexesbulletin board...
...young American seminarians in Rome, a sense of siege has set in. "Our eroticized society degrades us, and somehow that eroticism invades our lives no matter how we fight it," says Enrique Lopez, 28, a New Mexico native who knew Archbishop Sanchez and who is training to be a diocesan priest. "If Sanchez had been embezzling money or something like that, it would have been a scandal. But because he was involved in a sex scandal, it touched his dignity. I don't think that's fair." Says Lopez's fellow seminarian John Riccardo, 28, of Detroit...
...pastoral letter who have remained throughout the project. She does not see the all-male priesthood as an injustice and predicts, "There will be more and more women confidently within leadership positions. It will be taken for granted that women will teach in seminaries, manage finances or act in diocesan or parish leadership roles...
Last week three Canadian scandals also made news. A judge in Newfoundland sentenced Edward English of the Christian Brothers to 12 years in prison, declaring, "You are a disgrace to the order and to humanity." A separate scandal involves six present and former diocesan priests in Newfoundland. Also last week, a trial was ordered in the first of the abuse cases involving 19 Christian Brothers at a school in Alfred...