Word: priesting
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...Exactly, says Scherschel. "I asked God if I could do something else," said Scherschel, who was making good money in advertising before deciding to become a priest. It was exciting, creative, and more rungs on the ladder were ahead. "But this is of the spiritual, and that is critical. My life's not supposed to be about increasing my own worth anymore...
...Certainly the way they have been reaching out at home hasn't been working so well. Since 1980, the priesthood in Chicago alone has dropped from more than 1,200 in 1980 to just over 800 now (including retired or otherwise not practicing priests). Nationwide, one in every three Catholic priests is now foreign born, with the fastest-growing group of Hispanic descent. "The priesthood," Baima says, "isn't a normal career, or a career at all. It's more akin to marriage; it's total engagement. There's a personal dialogue in inviting someone to become a priest that...
...think it's a rather dramatic picture painted there," Williams told Time. "Making decisions that will lose you friends, compromise people's perception of your integrity - that's very hard. On the other hand, that is only part of the reality. First and foremost, I'm a priest and a bishop...
...Your position seems very sad and lonely. It feels burdensome, of course. And making decisions that will lose you friends, compromise people's perception of your integrity - that's very hard. On the other hand, that is only a part of the reality. First and foremost, I'm a priest and a bishop, and what I have to do is to celebrate sacraments, to pray, to try to convey the reality of God. I don't spend all my days in self-pity...
...lockstep with his then boss in opposing the war, and has recently commented that there is "nothing positive" coming out of the situation in Iraq. Of particular concern in Rome is the destiny of the Christian minority in the country. Over the past week, a Catholic Chaldean priest and three deacons were killed in Mosul in northern Iraq, while another Chaldean priest and five parishioners have been abducted in Baghdad. Thousands of Christians are fleeing the war-ravaged country. However, for fear of risking a further deterioration of the situation facing Iraqi ethnic and religious minorities, few clerics are calling...