tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post2313621100102404252..comments2024-03-29T07:38:07.393-07:00Comments on The Eponymous Flower: Tossati: "Priest Shortage? This Pope Gives no Incentive for Young Men"Tancredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-30406503504878798642017-04-04T15:49:51.113-07:002017-04-04T15:49:51.113-07:00My own Archdiosecean seminary in Philadelphia is a...My own Archdiosecean seminary in Philadelphia is a dead place, has been so for 50 years. But with Pope Francis, you actually feel the deadness of the place, a feeling of emptiness and loss. It's a feeling that something has been stolen....the Catholic Faith. And in it's place is fabricated garbage. No more Latin, no more chants, no more cassocks, no more discipline. It has the feel of a secular college.<br />One it had close to 600 seminarians (65 years ago...when we had a real Pope). Today, if they have 110 total, they're lucky. And they have to accept students from 10-15 other dioceses and even Orders to keep the place open. There was a small feeling of re-birth and hope under Benedict XVI there....a Catholicity returning. Not now with Francis.<br />It it stays open another 5 years, I'll be surprised. There was talk awhile back of selling the place. If they do...the seminary in finished.<br />Sometimes big ordination classes 60+ years ago, 45-50 new priests for our Archdiocese. Today, if they have a class of 5 new priests they celebrate. But usually it's 3-4.<br />Francis has, in 4 years, ruined the small gains in seminarians in the USA and world wide begun after 1988 with JPII, and gaining momentum under Benedict XVI. With Francis, world wide, there's been a steep decline.<br />Is anyone surprised? <br />Damian Malliapalli<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-67976060589305698742017-04-03T12:03:41.376-07:002017-04-03T12:03:41.376-07:00I could not agree more.I could not agree more.Kennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15346801564305334415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-35235434825228652522017-04-03T09:04:46.315-07:002017-04-03T09:04:46.315-07:00The priest shortage appears rather quite useful fo...The priest shortage appears rather quite useful for the German bishops. Gives them a reason to set up lay ministers and so forth. In general though, the priest shortage has already been solved. If you wants priests, turn to tradition. But many bishops would rather have no priests than accept that solution; this is explained more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZfexd9N-S4Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18278717340823115480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-10091115992799549312017-04-03T05:42:24.134-07:002017-04-03T05:42:24.134-07:00This idiot, monster of a man, BERGOGLIO, seems to ...This idiot, monster of a man, BERGOGLIO, seems to be heading toward a married priesthood while encouraging and facilitating divorce for annulments and the horrendous injustice this always involves, especially for children and abandoned spouses.<br /><br />It is abundantly clear to anyone with functional neurons that this man is about pure evil and has the support of the overwhelming amount of clergy and, in my opinion/experience a significant MAJORITY of Catholics.<br /><br />The decimation of a good priesthood is his goal.<br /><br /><br />KarlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com