Word: priesting
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...devout Catholic, was in an assisted living facility where they unfortunately didn?t hold Catholic mass on the weekends," she says. "I tried for weeks, but I couldn?t find a priest to come visit my mother. Finally, a priest was able to come, but by then she was in a coma. It was incredibly upsetting...
...priest means no sacraments are performed, which means the heft of the service is eliminated. Fewer priests mean fewer masses. So what?s a spiritually hungry Catholic...
...fundamental question: Is a married priest really a Catholic priest? The Vatican says absolutely not, but Haggett disagrees, citing Canon law. "Catholic doctrine says once you?re a priest, you?re always a priest," she says. "Once you?re ordained, you never stop being a priest. It?s something no one ever tells priests once they?ve decided to get married." Her conviction is based on a reading of Canon 290: "Sacred ordination once validly received never becomes invalid. A cleric, however, loses the clerical state." In other words, Haggett believes a priest who marries may no longer...
...name itself doesn?t inspire serious people to take them seriously." (Haggett says she thought the name would be a "good way to attract media attention.") But objections from many in the Catholic establishment to the site - and its mission - go well beyond semantics. The concept of laicized priests taking on the role of active priests is, Walsh insists, in direct conflict with Catholic doctrine. "Either you?re a priest in union with a diocese or you?re not. To suggest otherwise is wrong," she says...
...According to Walsh, the Church is well aware of the priest shortage - and leaders are taking "appropriate" actions to reverse the trend. "Right now we have about 35,000 people studying to become lay ministers," she says. "Once they?ve completed their studies, they can take on many of the duties traditionally taken on by priests. They won?t be able to perform the sacraments, like marriages and funerals, but they can bring communion to the sick...