Word: priestly
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When I was young, I never encountered this prejudice against. Catholics. For me, Catholic politics meant Democrats and the Kennedy clan, hardly conservatives. In fact, the most impressive moment of my childhood was when Father Ken, a parish priest with tangled hair and a long beard that made him look like a hippie, gave a sermon on the 1980 New York City march for peace...
...women, Chamorro is the epitome of the contemporary queen regent: benign, motherly and devout. As President, she is still more likely to open her mouth in prayer than in political double-talk. Showing up for a fiesta at the town of Juigalpa, Chamorro was asked by the local parish priest to say a few words. She replied, "What better words than the Lord's Prayer" and proceeded to lead the crowd in the Paternoster. With just a high school education, she leans for major decisions on what she calls her "sixth sense...
...their own way, the bishops tried to meet their problems head on. The loneliness of a priest's life can be transformed into a more positive spiritual "solitude" through stronger emphasis on prayer, Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin and others argued. Priests should also be freed from their routine duties for renewal and a chance to vent their frustrations, the bishops believe. A requirement for "ongoing education" will be one of the suggestions the synod will send to the Pope...
Bishops from India, Africa and particularly the newly liberated churches of Eastern Europe pointed out that their pressing problem is less the barrier of celibacy than how to house would-be priests and where to find the books and teachers to train them. "Do not make the mistake of thinking that our people in Africa do not know what celibacy is and would rather have their priests married," Bishop Norbert Wendelin Mtega of Tanzania told the synod. "They cannot imagine a Catholic priest who is married...
...declined from 30% in the 1960s to 10%. But even if the vocational decline continues, the hierarchy has an answer: in recent years, lay people have taken over many of the tasks of running their parishes. "In that vision of the church, you don't need as many priests," said one bishop. That is cold comfort to Catholics who lack a priest to say Sunday Mass, but it is a vision that the bishops are determined to keep in case their gamble fails...