People like to blame parents and poor catechism, but I think there is also a huge pile of blame at the feat of the bishops and dicastry for the clergy. Putting predators and fops in charge of seminarians, driving out orthodox priests, giving prominent roles to the usual suspects who wind up outed on Grindr. It's scandalous and vile. As a parent, I'm fearful of the idea of my sons being abused at seminary, or being crushed by the burdens of obedience to a monster like McCarrick or goons like the bishops that ran cover for him.
If your sons know what to look for and how to protect themselves, hopefilly there should not be a problem. It's been said that more seminarians are traditional leaning. Maybe too, all this exposure of corruption and abuse has put people on high alert and has also helped chase away the goons. I'm hoping there are a lot less corrupt clergy, that they are being sifted out. I have a 23 year old nephew who is discerning the priesthood. He's been interested since he was little. Now he knows about abuses, knows right from wrong and the terrible sin those abusers have committed. I'm praying for more strong priests.
As someone who has spent 5 years in the seminary I can admit that from my experience and talking with men at different seminaries, that any systemic sexual abuse or groups are gone. That said you are absolutely right with many bishops going after more traditional men.
@@katdunn7934 hoping doesn’t do anything. It’s easy if your nephew is in his 20’s and has plenty of options. Once you hit age 50 as a priest with no other backup career options, and without the benefits of parents to help you financially, you are basically locked in for life. No wonder priests feel hopeless at times. A bad bishop can always show up.
@mosesking2923 it's not easy for him. We are a family with too many financial struggles and it'll be years before getting into a seminary. He'll be trying for scholarships. He's working several jobs already. Yeah, older ones, it is hard for I agree. Many are smart and educated and actually can get jobs though. If they want it they can learn something new. They could even become teachers. They have master's degrees and many years of education. BTW, not all youth have parents to help them. And I disagree with you, I believe there is always hope.
Great show, Fr. Matt is a good man. I think having a good role model like Fr. Matt and Fr. Rich goes a long way to get young men thinking about the priesthood. I pray every day for all priest, they need prayers. God bless you, boys.
One of the boys in my religious ed class casually told me he is contemplating the priesthood. We were at a parish function and he was placing raffle tickets in the container for the religious basket, which he really wanted to win because he loved the crucifix in it. We got to chatting and I asked him if he had an interest in the priesthood because frankly its unusual for an 11 year old to be taking tickets for the religion basket when the PS5 basket is right next to it and he simply replied yeah, I really like it and I want to do it. Is it too early for an 11 year old to discern?? I went to our parish priest right after the event and made him aware as this boy is already an alter server and known to him. Gotta tell you I felt the Holy Spirit move in that casual moment, It was really powerful
Exactly. For the seminarians I know in the diocese of St. Augustine who discerned out, it was because of the lack of the traditional mass. It's also what has kept me from going full swing into St. John Vianney college seminary in Miami
I believe in prayer. I feel we are giving up, too easily. My prayers are for the Priests, those discerning the Priesthood and also the Religious Life. I am hoping, from the Eucharistic Congress, we will have more becoming Priests and Nuns. Thank you! God Bless!
I love in East Tennessee and our Pastor is 66 and has 3 parishes driving great distances. He had his first vacation in 4 years, mostly we don't have enough priests and those we have don't want the hard duty. Pray for our priests.
My diocese, when Bishop Strickland was in charge, had 21 seminarians. That was more than the entire country of Germany had. I am so proud that my son is among those fine young men.
@@lauracook7608 “normal” well with some American cardinals sitting on the congregation for bishops -bishop selection committees-i really worry about those things.
Your point of having priests around is so true. My son is in his 3rd year of seminary and he was raised around our best friend, Fr. Anthony McLaughlin. All my boys grew up being altar boys and saw that priests are normal people. I remember when Fr. McLaughlin invited all the kids in the parish to tour his new home. He showed them the frozen pizzas and chicken nuggets in is freezer and his Star Wars action figures from when he was a kid. He talked to them about growing up in Ireland; he was a real person and not 'The Priest'. I am sure it made a difference in Patrick's life. He was 1 semester away from becoming an electrical engineer when he left to join the seminary.
Hi Ryan, Ryan, and Father Matt. Greetings from NH. Great show, tough topic. Our kids are inundated with garbage. They get it in school (public and parochial), from TV, not to mention that half come from broken homes. I think many young men are called but are unable to hear the call. I have no answers, I will leave that to you.
As a priest it has been a challenge to build a culture of vocations in the parish. I talk about vocations regularly. I try to model what it means to be a priest. We pray and pass a chalice from one family to another during Mass for that family to pray for vocations in the following week. We just don't seem to be getting any traction. Few things disturb me more than a family that discourages vocations. I mean, what right do you have to draw from the sacraments that you are refusing to God's church, like picking an apple and chopping down the tree.
@@warrenphilips8441 I met a young man from our diocese who said he was interested in the Jesuits. I told him don’t. “The Jesuits will ruin you,” I said. He was shocked. I don’t regret warning him. Maybe you’re not getting much traction because of all the crap going on in the Church is a stronger counter-witness.
From my experience of meeting people in the parishes who earnestly pray for more vocation to the priesthood and religious life are only praying for other people's children and not for their own children or grandchildren because they have their own ambition for their own children i.e. doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, teachers, etc.
God uses prayers in ways that we might not intend, if one's children have a disposition to be a priest the most important thing is a good Catholic upbringing, God will call who he needs
Yes. Also it feels like they want 'others' to live ascetic life but they don't think it would consider themselves. What I mean by that, some people (married with family) are very quick to demand strictness and austerity from the religious, even in simple things such as clothing ('how dare the nuns not wear habits?!' etc.), but they themselves don't think how _they_ should practice of dying to self in their close relationships... They demand the sacrifice of others, often without remembering that _each_ vocation is about learning the sacrificial love.
A little over a year ago, my son told me he was considering becoming a religious. I admit I did feel surprised at first, and the thought of "what about marriage and children?" did cross my mind. But I quickly resigned and brought myself back to "Thy will be done" and relized how pleasing and honoring it would actually be as a mother for my eldest to devote his life to God. At the time, my youngest had passed, so now it would appear that it was a desperate longing on the part of my eldest, rather than a true calling, since he has stronger interests now. Puberty also hit him like a ton of bricks which has left him conflicted and confused. He's still young and faithful though. What so ever the Lord chooses for him, I will rejoice. Please, pray for him.
@Horse-Feathers Entrust him to Our Lady. He needs prayer indeed, but especially mother's prayer - yours as well as our heavenly mother. Mother's prayer is more efficacious than stranger's.
Another great episode!!! Thank you for all the men who are stepping up to serve in these wild times and a special thank you to the great priests like Fr Matt who are stepping up to help out with the Catholic Talk Show in Fr Rich's absence (who we miss) Praying for Jen and y'all Ryan D!!!!
Back in 2011 I was at WYD Madrid, and there was an American Bishop [may have even been cardinal], I can't remember his name or where he was from, but I clearly remember him saying it wasn't the priesthood in danger, it was the vocation of marriage! He mad the points you fine fellows made, that people are having smaller families, so when you have one or two kids, you don't want them going off to be religious. It was a big eye-opener for me, because I always just used to think "oh yeah, the religious vocations/priesthood is in dire straits". I never considered it as being a flow on from the attack on marriage. It's especially noticable where I am, in New Zealand. With that said, the young guys coming up through the very solid, large Catholic families, are on fire for the Lord and open to his plans for their lives - especially when there's a vocational call. Anyway, please pray for New Zealand, we're living under quite a demonic cloak that too many happily ignore.
I agree. In the UK the abortion laws have also become more lax over time, yet we now have politicians telling us we need more immigration to combat the fact that we’re having far fewer children, yet these same politicians push abortion under the guise of feminism and choice, but society has in my lifetime, gone from being a traditional family where the husband was the breadwinner and the wife stayed at home and brought up the children. Now it’s impossible to buy a house on one wage so woman have to go out to work. This leads to smaller families, as does couples not getting married or being able to afford to get married and buy a house. Their priorities have also changed to wanting it all and leading lifestyles where they put themselves first. In the UK the demand for housing is at crisis point. Mass immigration pushed up house prices out of the reach of young couples. It’s very complex what’s led to the decline in births and subsequently vocations. Countries like India are still very devout and have more entering the priesthood.
It's not just about big families, but family living out and raising in Christian values. It's very hard to pursue a religious vocation if one's relationship with the Church/teaching of the Church is weakened, due to coming from a broken family, e.g. non married, or divorced, or re-married or other irregular situations.These irregular family situations put a sort of a wedge between the person and the Church - it's very hard for a child to reconcile that they're loving their parents and the parents love them, AND that they're wrong according to the teaching of the Church. Many people will be distanced from the Church because of that, at least until they mature enough, but it comes with age and emotional maturity. Also, many people not being brought up in faith based families, and they learn to deepen their faith only as adults, which understandably also shifts the time when the vocation could be pursuit, that's why there's now relatively lot of late vocations, 30+, 35+ plus.
(Rev. Dr.) Donald Cozzens, then Rector of the Cleveland major seminary, wrote "The changing face of the priesthood" which gives many valuable insights, both positive and negative. WELL worth reading.
Lord Jesus I keep faith even as I struggle as a single mother. I know you will provide for us. Both of my sons have special needs. They require so much from me. Lord Jesus give me strength as I struggle providing the basic necessities like clothing and groceries. Lord Jesus please continue to carry me through this difficult time help me provide for my children. Amen.💕
When I was younger our church had 2 priests. Now there is 1 priest and he is shared at 3 churches. I'm in England. It's so sad. Congregations are on the decline too.
Hi, two question: Ryan (D), how are 49:59 you, your wife and family going? Secondly, how is Father Richard and his mother going? I offer prayers for those mentioned.🙏
We're in Mission Territory in Nebraska. I've planted three Churches in this state already and there are plans for more. The harvest is plentiful, but the Laborers are few. Like Jesus reminds us, let us pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send us more Laborers.
My brother been trying to be a priest since he was 18. He's now 49 and still hasn't given up his pursuit. He's been shot down from diocese's throughout the united state's. It's sad having someone with calling but keeps getting hung up on.
Know someone like that. He reminds me of St Jean Vianney. They won't ordain him because he keeps failing Latin. But seriously, how often does a priest need to know Latin these days?
The Marians of the Immaculate Conception in Stockbridge MA has 27 men in seminary in Steubenville OH. The Marians of the immaculate Conception are building a new Monastery in Stockbridge MA. Father Chris Alar said the men in Steubenville, OH is the largest in their 350 year history. I pray for them. Please keep them in your prayers.
I appreciated this video. I believe you could have enhanced information at the end of the talk show when Father mentioned the value of praying. The Serra International Ministry should have been mentioned as a movement that exists to pray and support for all vocations. Then you mentioned that debt if a barrier to vocations. Here again, the Laboure' Society should have been mentioned that their mission is to help men and women to share their need and contributions are made to Laboure' to assist individuals to eliminate their student debt and they can enter religious life.
The birthrate is below replacement rate in all Western countries (except Greenland if that counts). In the rare few countries where it appears not to be, that is due to migrants having large families and gradually replacing the local population. The European Union even has an official policy stating that that is what *should* happen.
Our parish just combined with another parish this summer and we have to share a priest. He goes back and forth every other weekend to say mass, and on the off weekends we have a different priest. It's been really sad. We're now losing a mass time on Sunday mornings for both parishes, and they claimed it's due to low attendance but we have about 2/3 of our church full or more during mass. 😢
Everything fell apart with the NO Mass. It denigrated the priesthood, putting him on the same level as the laity. He is only a "Presider" over the "assembly", not the priest who offers the Sacrifice of the Mass in the Person of Christ.
In germany we have the same problem. My Priest told me that in 2023 only 7catholic Priest were appointed. I myself am thinking about becomming a Priest but I have to have worked for a few years in a regulqr job or I have to go to school again to later study theology
There are some church parishes/Catholic schools that are really good at giving young men the avenues to discern the priesthood and young women opportunities to discern religious life. Then, there are way too many Catholic schools who push that to the side for secular activities.. and fundraising for new football fields, gyms, busses to carry athletes to games and totally neglect activities the foster a thriving vocations program.
The elephant in the room is how you are playing Russian Roulette with Bishops these days. One day you have superior like +Strickland, and the next day, you have someone who cheerleads for Fr. James Martin, SJ. I've seen good priests crushed utterly by obedience to bad bishops.
Lots of priest vocation stories say it was a grandmother or a priest or teacher that first got them thinking about priesthood by saying “you’d make a good priest “.
This is what has happened to me. I have thought about the priesthood but I didn't mention it to anyone. Then my RCIA teacher out of the blue asked me if I had considered the priesthood. I was also recommended directly to our bishop as a potential candidate for the priesthood. I was invited by the bishop to a retreat regarding discernment soon. Exciting but also worrying for me because i'm not sure I can live up to the standard set by the priests I admire. I know morally I have no hang-ups but I worry about things like not being a great public speaker
When I became catholic, I felt a calling to be a deacon...although I was dissuaded from my RCIA director that I have two little kids and it may not be a good time.
Good advice. Raise your small children to love Jesus, Mary, the mother God & the most holy Eucharist & Adoration etc The domestic church is where you need to be a strong & faithful Catholic Dad! Attend a TLM & bring your young family
the month/year i went to europe the bishop of barcelona left the priesthood to marry his lady friend who had just given him a set of twins. not so much later a bishop in france left to marry and several of his diocesan priests followed him into marriage. . what story does this tell?
Actually he was the bushel of Solsona not the cardinal archbishop or one of his auxiliaries. Actually he was young at times was a semi transitional guy. He actually didn’t like female servers and had issues with lay involvement with parishes. Then he married an erotic book author and has twins now.
Why can’t people say “number of” when they’re talking about something easily counted, and “amount of” for something like fuel or water or air? I was born in 1961 and if I had said or written “amount of priests” rather than “number of priests” in grade school I would have been corrected. At some point, schools stopped doing that. Why? Maybe “number” is actually the n-word that should not be used?
The Church also abandoned the order of Simplex Priests which should never have been done either because the simplex priest used to fill the gaps in parishes that many others with a much higher educated pedigree didn't want to go to. Heck the Patron Saint of Parish Priests, St Jean Vianney would under today's criteria unlikely be admitted for ordination.
I'm 3/4s of the way through the show and I have yet to hear the 2 biggest reasons why there is a priest shortage. They are the 2 biggest elephants in the room and they haven't been discussed yet. I bet anyone who reads this comment will know exactly what I am referring to.
Broken trust and preferential option for the institution rather than the poor and vulnerable….all made clear by a continuing refusal to be transparent in their handling of the many crises plaguing her credibility.
Not being able to marry? Terrible leadership, no respect? Also I am told that when a priest passes, all of his wealth and possessions go to the church? Shouldn't the priest decide that?
Back in the 50s, 60s, and early 70s, the Chicago Archdiocese normally ordained 30 to 40 priests annually. I seem to recall that in 2022 or 2023, the Archdiocese ordained 2 priests. One of them had been an engineer and started seminary about 10 years after graduating from college. One Chicago DJ said back in the late 90s that when Catholic families had 5 to 8 kids, it was typical for one son to enter the priesthood, or one daughter to become a nun. But, as Catholic families have gotten smaller, parents no longer feel obligated to guide a child into a Church ministry.
Great analysis, thank you! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
The Arlington Diocese is thriving with Priestly vocations. They come out solid! Whatever they are doing is working. It’s probably the Seminaries they use. St Charles Borromeo and Mount St Mary are 2 they send their Seminarians.
I think it's also very important to discuss the number of Vocations that are blocked because of student loan debt. Everyone is told to go to college by default, and then if they discern God is calling them to the priesthood or religious life, they aren't able to join for years at best (even if they work a high paying job) and might never be able to join at worst. My own Vocation is one of these. Thankfully, groups like the Labouré Society exist, but they need help and people don't know about them either!
The US population fertility rate is 1.7. We need to be at 2.1 to just break even. A priest shortage is a result of our shrinking population. People are not having enough children.
this planet has a carrying capacity of 11 billion. we are at almost 9 billion. having spare children to send them off to the seminary is bad reason for family. we need more priests, and allow them families., but do not encourage heavy population growth because the earth will not be able to feed and house without serious consequences. ie collapse of the ecosystems by destruction for over development. so teach that and teach humans to honor the earth. and stop worrying about having grandchildren. love your neighbors, adopt spare kids who need homes.
The big problem you need to be called first to enter Seminary College and it takes about five years to become a Priest at took my friend that long to come a Priest did become a Province Provide now retired
The number of priests and vocations has declined ever since Vatican 2. Coincidence? I think not. But believe whatever you want. The TLM community is growing and thriving.
I'm feeling like I may be called to the priesthood, but i'm not sure if it would even work out for me. Im 23, married, and unfortunately, I have visible tattoos on my hands. I don't even think they would consider me for seminary
Catholics took their priests for granted for so long, now that there is a shortage they are demanding even more from their priests and of course taking it for granted that they are coping with the extra workload. I’m the Pastor of eight parishes. Ordained 35 years ago, most of my contemporaries have left the priesthood. In the diocese where I minister there were 365 priests in 1965, now there are 19 native born priests and the rest of us are from other countries.
I'm writing this from Austria, Europe. One more point for the lack of priests is the fact that bishops don't want priests. Lay pastoral assistances are in much greater favour to them, than ordained ministers. It is not expected of the priest to act sacerdotally. Priests are supposed to be entertainers. All they have studied and learned is to be forgotten by them they day they get ordained. I could write volumes about the awful situation priests are going thru. If a young man came to me telling me he was concerning a vocation to the priesthood, I don't know if I could recommend him to follow that call. Grown up men don't want to deal with this kind of superficiality and stupidity. One doesn't want to go thru 6 to 7 years at training and studies, to be treated without trust and confidence from above. No priests wants to play kindergarten for First Communion, and never see the kids and parents again. Priests in our place are not supposed to lead people on the way of salvation. Salvation is not a term a priest can utter because everybody is going to be saved regardless his / her deeds. Prayer, piety, catholicity have no place in ministry.
The subject of not wanting to "lifelong commit" I wonder if that societal change in the United States has increased with the increase of ADHD in the USA. Curious if there's a connection.
you should read the book by nikos kazanzakis. the theme of the last temptation was that jesus was tempted away from his calling as savior. and so the book traced the what if...... in the end what you missed is that jesus did understand what his calling was to die and create salvation for people and he was rejoicing in the end that it was accomplished. . the struggle of vocation is real. this book was an analysis of the struggle of understanding the calling. in the end, to accept the calling is a triumphant ending. you haven''t read the book.
I am discerning the priesthood. I was told by a well-known priest/author, that many of you would know of, to join the FSSP, ICKSP, or even the SSPX because the novus ordo side of the Church including the seminaries are hostile to any traditionally minded Catholic. He said Catholics who hold to the Church's teaching on certain issues are persecuted internally. He said there is a real war happening in the Church & he told me to seriously think this over and make sure i'm prepared for it if I go the novus ordo route. I think we all know this is true but it's scary to hear it from a priest especially how serious and how much he stressed this issue to me.
And it’s especially young Catholics. The old Mass is generally more solemn and seems to do a better job of instilling a sense of the sacred. More people are being drawn to that.
It has nothing to do with religion. It's a reactionary cultural phenomomenon. They are all right wing political fascists, that wrap themselves in a fantasy. It's like the royalist movement in Poland.
Look at how priests are treated. From parishioners, from bishop. from fellow priests. from angry catholics. living in a church of uncatechised people who think they know everything.
Speaking as a former protestant pastor, I would be a priest if it was an option open to me. Not advocating for changes to priest hood (celibacy ect.), just saying there are those like me that could help. I am pursuing the diaconate but this is a 4-5 year process in my area. Even then the deacon role is typically not paid, voluntary and often part time. Trying to help my parish as I can but I must be bi-vocational to pay the bills so my time and attention are split. Maybe the church could explore non-ordained pastoral care paid roles.
There isn't a priest shortage. Many excellent priests have been canceled because they actually teach the Catholic faith. In the Traditional Latin Mass communities vocations are booming.
Parishes grounded in and built around the old Mass attract young people who eventually have large families. These large families then produce abundant vocations. The wonderful SSPX chapel I am fortunate to attend printed a list of vocations to the priesthood and relogious life from that chapel in its bulletin, as reference for parishioners to include in their prayers. They had to suspend printing it because it ended up taking too much space in the bulletin. This same chapel is now out of space and has initiated the planning process to build a new, much larger chapel a few miles away. This sort of vocational abundance could be the mainstream church's if its churchmen were willing to reconsider many of the fundamental assumptions that the post Vatican II-diocesan model is built on.
The church has a tough job: teaching people that Jesus exists, that the church's teachings align with the Bible, etc. And then the scandal hits. Proof of widespread inappropriate contact at a systemic level. The notion that the church is inspired and correct is no longer a given, and this weakens all of the church's teachings because it is quite obvious that the church is not inspired. The only explanation that makes sense in this context and my other observations about the church's pandering to liberals vs conservatives is that the church is a business. It makes business decisions like any other business and this does not involve God. It's a shame.
unfortunately during that active time of altar boys was the most active time of young men being abused by the priests. the switch to adults as concelebrants, probably helped to open the mouths of the abused and it started to slow down with the revelations.
John Paul 2 undermined the change from Alter boys to alter servers and allowed girls. This undermined the purpose to get young boys closer to the alter to understand the grace of being at the foot of the cross.
Don't forget, the altar boys also kept the older priests interested. and the old timey cassocks were great because you could hide two or more altar boys in your robes.
Note, talk to the traditional thinking young men. They are disappointed that so any clergy, & churches are secular in actions. Weak clergy accepting what secular parishioners say. Not directing the people. Devoted Catholics want the traditional church back. Clergy, & parishioners.
I see several recent videos saying ordinations are on the rise in the US, and also several protestant videos discussing why their most educated theologians are becoming catholic. Keep praying, but dare I hope the catholic Renaissance is underway? Edit: by the way, when I inquired about becoming a deacon, I got the answer that I was 61 years old and the cutoff is 60. Hey, worried about my health? At least call me in and do something..take my pulse! The church has a PR problem, not an issue with too few people being interested.
We're starved spiritually. And the Catholic Church holds the answer. Jesus is the body and blood in the eucharist. He's there to feed us spiritually. The protestant doesn't have that
I Hope you guys plus Father answer me. Thanks❤ I watched the real messages our Mother Mary sends to Luz and St. Michael , Mother Mary said, confess your sins more often, that your souls is ready.❤ I am sick in pain in bed, priest is not inside my heart and soul to see when I need to confess, when I ask priest please come for my confession, he said it is not time yet, it has to be one month.❤ I am trying not to get angry❤ are we sick people left overs? Oh let's taking care of church people first.❤ What should I do?❤ Nobody from other TH-cam answer me❤ hope you guys do❤ Bless you guys❤
I listen to parishioners after mass. Most is focused on Sally and her cheerleading or Jimmy made golf jr spot. No one speaking regarding church. Mostly bragging. Parish priest. Whom is fantastic. Has to bend to his parishioners. Those writing the check. It's sad. The church. Has become a political , financial pawn.
If Priests were Allowed to get married I would become a Priest Myself. I heard that Catholic Priests not getting married in the Catholic Church is a Discipline and not an actual Law but the Bishops, and Pope refuse to Allow Priests to get Married. Instead I am discerning becoming a Deacon because they can have a Wife and Children. 🎉
Priests being celibate is a discipline, the rule could change. I’m not sure it would drastically make a change but is it worth considering? Our Eastern Brothers, that are in communion with Rome, have married Priests and seem to function with reverence and pastoral care. Thank God for so many Priests coming from Kenya, Nigeria and Vietnam filling the void in the US.
In my diocese in Canada most of our new priests are coming from Africa and India. I hear that in certain African countries there are more applicants to the priesthood than there are spaces in seminaries.
It make big change, in Ukraine priests are married and have many children, with time their children get married and grandchildren get married, so it create big Christian community connected by church and common ancestors.
Barely any money in the baskets as is. How is your congregation going to pay for you, your wife, and your kids??? You would need a second or third job.
@@tmartin-wong8602 Funny, no money in the basket is no problem in churches that do not mandate celebacy. And mandatory celebacy is nothing other than a manmade innovation only half as old as the Church.I suppose if latin priests started wearing clown suits to celebrate mass back at the time of the Schism, Trads would want to return to that,too.
Families used to have many children and one would be dedicated to God, maybe it's time to do that again. A social worker makes about 100k/year, maybe upping the wage?
People like to blame parents and poor catechism, but I think there is also a huge pile of blame at the feat of the bishops and dicastry for the clergy. Putting predators and fops in charge of seminarians, driving out orthodox priests, giving prominent roles to the usual suspects who wind up outed on Grindr. It's scandalous and vile. As a parent, I'm fearful of the idea of my sons being abused at seminary, or being crushed by the burdens of obedience to a monster like McCarrick or goons like the bishops that ran cover for him.
If your sons know what to look for and how to protect themselves, hopefilly there should not be a problem. It's been said that more seminarians are traditional leaning. Maybe too, all this exposure of corruption and abuse has put people on high alert and has also helped chase away the goons. I'm hoping there are a lot less corrupt clergy, that they are being sifted out.
I have a 23 year old nephew who is discerning the priesthood. He's been interested since he was little. Now he knows about abuses, knows right from wrong and the terrible sin those abusers have committed. I'm praying for more strong priests.
As someone who has spent 5 years in the seminary I can admit that from my experience and talking with men at different seminaries, that any systemic sexual abuse or groups are gone. That said you are absolutely right with many bishops going after more traditional men.
Amen
@@katdunn7934 hoping doesn’t do anything. It’s easy if your nephew is in his 20’s and has plenty of options. Once you hit age 50 as a priest with no other backup career options, and without the benefits of parents to help you financially, you are basically locked in for life. No wonder priests feel hopeless at times. A bad bishop can always show up.
@mosesking2923 it's not easy for him. We are a family with too many financial struggles and it'll be years before getting into a seminary. He'll be trying for scholarships. He's working several jobs already. Yeah, older ones, it is hard for I agree. Many are smart and educated and actually can get jobs though. If they want it they can learn something new. They could even become teachers. They have master's degrees and many years of education. BTW, not all youth have parents to help them. And I disagree with you, I believe there is always hope.
Great show, Fr. Matt is a good man. I think having a good role model like Fr. Matt and Fr. Rich goes a long way to get young men thinking about the priesthood. I pray every day for all priest, they need prayers. God bless you, boys.
One of the boys in my religious ed class casually told me he is contemplating the priesthood. We were at a parish function and he was placing raffle tickets in the container for the religious basket, which he really wanted to win because he loved the crucifix in it. We got to chatting and I asked him if he had an interest in the priesthood because frankly its unusual for an 11 year old to be taking tickets for the religion basket when the PS5 basket is right next to it and he simply replied yeah, I really like it and I want to do it. Is it too early for an 11 year old to discern?? I went to our parish priest right after the event and made him aware as this boy is already an alter server and known to him. Gotta tell you I felt the Holy Spirit move in that casual moment, It was really powerful
No shortage of priests in the traditional seminaries
Exactly. For the seminarians I know in the diocese of St. Augustine who discerned out, it was because of the lack of the traditional mass. It's also what has kept me from going full swing into St. John Vianney college seminary in Miami
Not to mention Traditional Abbey Our Lady of Clear Creek is bursting with monastic vocations
Lot of bling in those places
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Yes. Read my post
I believe in prayer. I feel we are giving up, too easily. My prayers are for the Priests, those discerning the Priesthood and also the Religious Life. I am hoping, from the Eucharistic Congress, we will have more becoming Priests and Nuns. Thank you! God Bless!
I love in East Tennessee and our Pastor is 66 and has 3 parishes driving great distances. He had his first vacation in 4 years, mostly we don't have enough priests and those we have don't want the hard duty. Pray for our priests.
My diocese, when Bishop Strickland was in charge, had 21 seminarians. That was more than the entire country of Germany had. I am so proud that my son is among those fine young men.
Keeping him in my prayers, let’s see if some wacky is not sent there that discourages vocations since the are “too rigid”
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@@casadechris923 yes please pray we get a normal bishop! Thank you for your prayers for Patrick.
@@lauracook7608 “normal” well with some American cardinals sitting on the congregation for bishops -bishop selection committees-i really worry about those things.
Your point of having priests around is so true. My son is in his 3rd year of seminary and he was raised around our best friend, Fr. Anthony McLaughlin. All my boys grew up being altar boys and saw that priests are normal people. I remember when Fr. McLaughlin invited all the kids in the parish to tour his new home. He showed them the frozen pizzas and chicken nuggets in is freezer and his Star Wars action figures from when he was a kid. He talked to them about growing up in Ireland; he was a real person and not 'The Priest'. I am sure it made a difference in Patrick's life. He was 1 semester away from becoming an electrical engineer when he left to join the seminary.
Speaking of a priest shortage, I'm really, really, missing a particular priest from this show :'(...
Hi Ryan, Ryan, and Father Matt. Greetings from NH. Great show, tough topic. Our kids are inundated with garbage. They get it in school (public and parochial), from TV, not to mention that half come from broken homes. I think many young men are called but are unable to hear the call. I have no answers, I will leave that to you.
Need big families again. Combine that with Traditional Catholicism, and you would have an abundance of vocations.
As a priest it has been a challenge to build a culture of vocations in the parish. I talk about vocations regularly. I try to model what it means to be a priest. We pray and pass a chalice from one family to another during Mass for that family to pray for vocations in the following week. We just don't seem to be getting any traction. Few things disturb me more than a family that discourages vocations. I mean, what right do you have to draw from the sacraments that you are refusing to God's church, like picking an apple and chopping down the tree.
God bless you Fr.
@@warrenphilips8441 I met a young man from our diocese who said he was interested in the Jesuits. I told him don’t. “The Jesuits will ruin you,” I said. He was shocked. I don’t regret warning him. Maybe you’re not getting much traction because of all the crap going on in the Church is a stronger counter-witness.
Thanks!
From my experience of meeting people in the parishes who earnestly pray for more vocation to the priesthood and religious life are only praying for other people's children and not for their own children or grandchildren because they have their own ambition for their own children i.e. doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, teachers, etc.
When. did you receive this inside information on priests’ private thoughts?
God uses prayers in ways that we might not intend, if one's children have a disposition to be a priest the most important thing is a good Catholic upbringing, God will call who he needs
Yes. Also it feels like they want 'others' to live ascetic life but they don't think it would consider themselves. What I mean by that, some people (married with family) are very quick to demand strictness and austerity from the religious, even in simple things such as clothing ('how dare the nuns not wear habits?!' etc.), but they themselves don't think how _they_ should practice of dying to self in their close relationships...
They demand the sacrifice of others, often without remembering that _each_ vocation is about learning the sacrificial love.
A little over a year ago, my son told me he was considering becoming a religious. I admit I did feel surprised at first, and the thought of "what about marriage and children?" did cross my mind. But I quickly resigned and brought myself back to "Thy will be done" and relized how pleasing and honoring it would actually be as a mother for my eldest to devote his life to God.
At the time, my youngest had passed, so now it would appear that it was a desperate longing on the part of my eldest, rather than a true calling, since he has stronger interests now.
Puberty also hit him like a ton of bricks which has left him conflicted and confused. He's still young and faithful though. What so ever the Lord chooses for him, I will rejoice. Please, pray for him.
@Horse-Feathers Entrust him to Our Lady. He needs prayer indeed, but especially mother's prayer - yours as well as our heavenly mother. Mother's prayer is more efficacious than stranger's.
Another great episode!!! Thank you for all the men who are stepping up to serve in these wild times and a special thank you to the great priests like Fr Matt who are stepping up to help out with the Catholic Talk Show in Fr Rich's absence (who we miss)
Praying for Jen and y'all Ryan D!!!!
Lord give us good priests, Lord give us many many many priests. amen.
Amen!!!!
Thank you all for this great podcast discussion!! A friend sent to me & I’m forwarding to our ClergySupport !
Back in 2011 I was at WYD Madrid, and there was an American Bishop [may have even been cardinal], I can't remember his name or where he was from, but I clearly remember him saying it wasn't the priesthood in danger, it was the vocation of marriage! He mad the points you fine fellows made, that people are having smaller families, so when you have one or two kids, you don't want them going off to be religious.
It was a big eye-opener for me, because I always just used to think "oh yeah, the religious vocations/priesthood is in dire straits". I never considered it as being a flow on from the attack on marriage.
It's especially noticable where I am, in New Zealand. With that said, the young guys coming up through the very solid, large Catholic families, are on fire for the Lord and open to his plans for their lives - especially when there's a vocational call.
Anyway, please pray for New Zealand, we're living under quite a demonic cloak that too many happily ignore.
I agree. In the UK the abortion laws have also become more lax over time, yet we now have politicians telling us we need more immigration to combat the fact that we’re having far fewer children, yet these same politicians push abortion under the guise of feminism and choice, but society has in my lifetime, gone from being a traditional family where the husband was the breadwinner and the wife stayed at home and brought up the children. Now it’s impossible to buy a house on one wage so woman have to go out to work. This leads to smaller families, as does couples not getting married or being able to afford to get married and buy a house. Their priorities have also changed to wanting it all and leading lifestyles where they put themselves first.
In the UK the demand for housing is at crisis point. Mass immigration pushed up house prices out of the reach of young couples. It’s very complex what’s led to the decline in births and subsequently vocations. Countries like India are still very devout and have more entering the priesthood.
It's not just about big families, but family living out and raising in Christian values. It's very hard to pursue a religious vocation if one's relationship with the Church/teaching of the Church is weakened, due to coming from a broken family, e.g. non married, or divorced, or re-married or other irregular situations.These irregular family situations put a sort of a wedge between the person and the Church - it's very hard for a child to reconcile that they're loving their parents and the parents love them, AND that they're wrong according to the teaching of the Church. Many people will be distanced from the Church because of that, at least until they mature enough, but it comes with age and emotional maturity. Also, many people not being brought up in faith based families, and they learn to deepen their faith only as adults, which understandably also shifts the time when the vocation could be pursuit, that's why there's now relatively lot of late vocations, 30+, 35+ plus.
Miss Father Rich................🥲
(Rev. Dr.) Donald Cozzens, then Rector of the Cleveland major seminary, wrote "The changing face of the priesthood" which gives many valuable insights, both positive and negative. WELL worth reading.
I read that book years ago when it came out. A very thoughtful and honest assessment of the Priesthood.
Lord Jesus I keep faith even as I struggle as a single mother. I know you will provide for us. Both of my sons have special needs. They require so much from me. Lord Jesus give me strength as I struggle providing the basic necessities like clothing and groceries. Lord Jesus please continue to carry me through this difficult time help me provide for my children. Amen.💕
Great show
When I was younger our church had 2 priests. Now there is 1 priest and he is shared at 3 churches. I'm in England. It's so sad. Congregations are on the decline too.
Why don’t they ordain some of the deacons?
I had a nap with my dog and now it is popcorn time! Seriously I have heard of this and it is very sad.
Hi, two question: Ryan (D), how are 49:59 you, your wife and family going? Secondly, how is Father Richard and his mother going? I offer prayers for those mentioned.🙏
We're in Mission Territory in Nebraska. I've planted three Churches in this state already and there are plans for more. The harvest is plentiful, but the Laborers are few. Like Jesus reminds us, let us pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send us more Laborers.
Have your Bishop invite in the FSSP. You will have a parish filled with young couples and babies and holy priests.
@@carolynkimberly4021Nebraska has the FSSP
My brother been trying to be a priest since he was 18. He's now 49 and still hasn't given up his pursuit. He's been shot down from diocese's throughout the united state's. It's sad having someone with calling but keeps getting hung up on.
Know someone like that. He reminds me of St Jean Vianney. They won't ordain him because he keeps failing Latin. But seriously, how often does a priest need to know Latin these days?
Good video
The Marians of the Immaculate Conception in Stockbridge MA has 27 men in seminary in Steubenville OH. The Marians of the immaculate Conception are building a new Monastery in Stockbridge MA. Father Chris Alar said the men in Steubenville, OH is the largest in their 350 year history. I pray for them. Please keep them in your prayers.
I appreciated this video. I believe you could have enhanced information at the end of the talk show when Father mentioned the value of praying. The Serra International Ministry should have been mentioned as a movement that exists to pray and support for all vocations. Then you mentioned that debt if a barrier to vocations. Here again, the Laboure' Society should have been mentioned that their mission is to help men and women to share their need and contributions are made to Laboure' to assist individuals to eliminate their student debt and they can enter religious life.
The birthrate is below replacement rate in all Western countries (except Greenland if that counts). In the rare few countries where it appears not to be, that is due to migrants having large families and gradually replacing the local population. The European Union even has an official policy stating that that is what *should* happen.
Our parish just combined with another parish this summer and we have to share a priest. He goes back and forth every other weekend to say mass, and on the off weekends we have a different priest. It's been really sad. We're now losing a mass time on Sunday mornings for both parishes, and they claimed it's due to low attendance but we have about 2/3 of our church full or more during mass. 😢
Everything fell apart with the NO Mass. It denigrated the priesthood, putting him on the same level as the laity. He is only a "Presider" over the "assembly", not the priest who offers the Sacrifice of the Mass in the Person of Christ.
In germany we have the same problem. My Priest told me that in 2023 only 7catholic Priest were appointed. I myself am thinking about becomming a Priest but I have to have worked for a few years in a regulqr job or I have to go to school again to later study theology
If you feel a calling don't ignore it. Just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not worth it brother
Father Chris Alar says that by him they have the most in seminary since like 1962 or somewhere along those lines
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There are some church parishes/Catholic schools that are really good at giving young men the avenues to discern the priesthood and young women opportunities to discern religious life. Then, there are way too many Catholic schools who push that to the side for secular activities.. and fundraising for new football fields, gyms, busses to carry athletes to games and totally neglect activities the foster a thriving vocations program.
The elephant in the room is how you are playing Russian Roulette with Bishops these days. One day you have superior like +Strickland, and the next day, you have someone who cheerleads for Fr. James Martin, SJ. I've seen good priests crushed utterly by obedience to bad bishops.
Bergolio as a Marxists is not doing the papacy any favors.
How was Ratzinger any better?@@suzannelove5147
Lots of priest vocation stories say it was a grandmother or a priest or teacher that first got them thinking about priesthood by saying “you’d make a good priest “.
This is what has happened to me. I have thought about the priesthood but I didn't mention it to anyone. Then my RCIA teacher out of the blue asked me if I had considered the priesthood. I was also recommended directly to our bishop as a potential candidate for the priesthood. I was invited by the bishop to a retreat regarding discernment soon. Exciting but also worrying for me because i'm not sure I can live up to the standard set by the priests I admire. I know morally I have no hang-ups but I worry about things like not being a great public speaker
When I became catholic, I felt a calling to be a deacon...although I was dissuaded from my RCIA director that I have two little kids and it may not be a good time.
Good advice. Raise your small children to love Jesus, Mary, the mother God & the most holy Eucharist & Adoration etc The domestic church is where you need to be a strong & faithful Catholic Dad! Attend a TLM & bring your young family
the month/year i went to europe the bishop of barcelona left the priesthood to marry his lady friend who had just given him a set of twins. not so much later a bishop in france left to marry and several of his diocesan priests followed him into marriage. . what story does this tell?
No self-contorl sexually. No respect for purity, celibacy, chastity, and virgnity. Unwilling to sacrifice orgasms and sexual pleasure for God.
Actually he was the bushel of Solsona not the cardinal archbishop or one of his auxiliaries. Actually he was young at times was a semi transitional guy. He actually didn’t like female servers and had issues with lay involvement with parishes. Then he married an erotic book author and has twins now.
Vocations, congregations and families are growing in the TLM communities. That is what young men want... Tradition.
Why can’t people say “number of” when they’re talking about something easily counted, and “amount of” for something like fuel or water or air?
I was born in 1961 and if I had said or written “amount of priests” rather than “number of priests” in grade school I would have been corrected. At some point, schools stopped doing that. Why?
Maybe “number” is actually the n-word that should not be used?
Every person need family and children.
The Church also abandoned the order of Simplex Priests which should never have been done either because the simplex priest used to fill the gaps in parishes that many others with a much higher educated pedigree didn't want to go to. Heck the Patron Saint of Parish Priests, St Jean Vianney would under today's criteria unlikely be admitted for ordination.
Hi guys, hope you all are doing great during the preparation of our Lord's birth.
How Fr. Rich? I hope he is doing well
I'm 3/4s of the way through the show and I have yet to hear the 2 biggest reasons why there is a priest shortage. They are the 2 biggest elephants in the room and they haven't been discussed yet. I bet anyone who reads this comment will know exactly what I am referring to.
My guess: homosexuals and heretics in charge of seminary and diocese?
Broken trust and preferential option for the institution rather than the poor and vulnerable….all made clear by a continuing refusal to be transparent in their handling of the many crises plaguing her credibility.
Not being able to marry? Terrible leadership, no respect? Also I am told that when a priest passes, all of his wealth and possessions go to the church? Shouldn't the priest decide that?
Times changes, perhaps the harvest needs to be flexible and expand to late vocations 🤓
Back in the 50s, 60s, and early 70s, the Chicago Archdiocese normally ordained 30 to 40 priests annually.
I seem to recall that in 2022 or 2023, the Archdiocese ordained 2 priests. One of them had been an engineer and started seminary about 10 years after graduating from college.
One Chicago DJ said back in the late 90s that when Catholic families had 5 to 8 kids, it was typical for one son to enter the priesthood, or one daughter to become a nun.
But, as Catholic families have gotten smaller, parents no longer feel obligated to guide a child into a Church ministry.
Great analysis, thank you! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
The Arlington Diocese is thriving with Priestly vocations. They come out solid! Whatever they are doing is working. It’s probably the Seminaries they use. St Charles Borromeo and Mount St Mary are 2 they send their Seminarians.
Mount Saint Mary's is a good seminary.
I think it's also very important to discuss the number of Vocations that are blocked because of student loan debt. Everyone is told to go to college by default, and then if they discern God is calling them to the priesthood or religious life, they aren't able to join for years at best (even if they work a high paying job) and might never be able to join at worst. My own Vocation is one of these. Thankfully, groups like the Labouré Society exist, but they need help and people don't know about them either!
The US population fertility rate is 1.7. We need to be at 2.1 to just break even. A priest shortage is a result of our shrinking population. People are not having enough children.
this planet has a carrying capacity of 11 billion. we are at almost 9 billion. having spare children to send them off to the seminary is bad reason for family. we need more priests, and allow them families., but do not encourage heavy population growth because the earth will not be able to feed and house without serious consequences. ie collapse of the ecosystems by destruction for over development. so teach that and teach humans to honor the earth. and stop worrying about having grandchildren. love your neighbors, adopt spare kids who need homes.
The big problem you need to be called first to enter Seminary College and it takes about five years to become a Priest at took my friend that long to come a Priest did become a Province Provide now retired
Why was he kicked out of the seminary?
The Laboure Society help w/ seminarian student debt -- there's also the Fund for Vocations
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The number of priests and vocations has declined ever since Vatican 2. Coincidence? I think not. But believe whatever you want. The TLM community is growing and thriving.
I'm feeling like I may be called to the priesthood, but i'm not sure if it would even work out for me. Im 23, married, and unfortunately, I have visible tattoos on my hands. I don't even think they would consider me for seminary
If you are married, you wouldn't be able to become a Priest in the Latin Rite. You could become a Deacon! Talk to your Parish Priest.
You cannot be married and be a priest because you have to make a vow of celibacy
@michaelottesen6143 thank you
First is finding good seminary.
There's is a shortage of EVERYBODY these days, except for TH-cam influencers.
Catholics took their priests for granted for so long, now that there is a shortage they are demanding even more from their priests and of course taking it for granted that they are coping with the extra workload. I’m the Pastor of eight parishes. Ordained 35 years ago, most of my contemporaries have left the priesthood. In the diocese where I minister there were 365 priests in 1965, now there are 19 native born priests and the rest of us are from other countries.
Our priests these days are coming from African and India and places where the church is actually growing fast.
@SJ-f9i exactly, but that doesn’t bother Catholics……may as well be Latin
VA has cluster parishes...
Our Diocese of St. Petersburg Fl has 85 parishes under their umbrella ...
I'm writing this from Austria, Europe.
One more point for the lack of priests is the fact that bishops don't want priests. Lay pastoral assistances are in much greater favour to them, than ordained ministers. It is not expected of the priest to act sacerdotally. Priests are supposed to be entertainers. All they have studied and learned is to be forgotten by them they day they get ordained. I could write volumes about the awful situation priests are going thru.
If a young man came to me telling me he was concerning a vocation to the priesthood, I don't know if I could recommend him to follow that call.
Grown up men don't want to deal with this kind of superficiality and stupidity. One doesn't want to go thru 6 to 7 years at training and studies, to be treated without trust and confidence from above. No priests wants to play kindergarten for First Communion, and never see the kids and parents again.
Priests in our place are not supposed to lead people on the way of salvation. Salvation is not a term a priest can utter because everybody is going to be saved regardless his / her deeds. Prayer, piety, catholicity have no place in ministry.
God bless Priests 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Is Fr. Rich gone for good?
The subject of not wanting to "lifelong commit" I wonder if that societal change in the United States has increased with the increase of ADHD in the USA. Curious if there's a connection.
same goes for women. I would have been a good nun, but I was never told anything about nuns.
A video that talk about movies that catholic should avoid (The Last Temptation of Christ, etc)
you should read the book by nikos kazanzakis. the theme of the last temptation was that jesus was tempted away from his calling as savior. and so the book traced the what if...... in the end what you missed is that jesus did understand what his calling was to die and create salvation for people and he was rejoicing in the end that it was accomplished. . the struggle of vocation is real. this book was an analysis of the struggle of understanding the calling. in the end, to accept the calling is a triumphant ending. you haven''t read the book.
I am discerning the priesthood. I was told by a well-known priest/author, that many of you would know of, to join the FSSP, ICKSP, or even the SSPX because the novus ordo side of the Church including the seminaries are hostile to any traditionally minded Catholic. He said Catholics who hold to the Church's teaching on certain issues are persecuted internally. He said there is a real war happening in the Church & he told me to seriously think this over and make sure i'm prepared for it if I go the novus ordo route. I think we all know this is true but it's scary to hear it from a priest especially how serious and how much he stressed this issue to me.
Number of priests please. 🙏 God Bless all of you
Spent 8 years in the seminary back in the 60s. Why all the desire today for Latin Mass? I don't get it.
And it’s especially young Catholics. The old Mass is generally more solemn and seems to do a better job of instilling a sense of the sacred. More people are being drawn to that.
It has nothing to do with religion. It's a reactionary cultural phenomomenon. They are all right wing political fascists, that wrap themselves in a fantasy. It's like the royalist movement in Poland.
Look at how priests are treated. From parishioners, from bishop. from fellow priests. from angry catholics. living in a church of uncatechised people who think they know everything.
also, they don't supply them with young children any more,so not as much fun as it was.
Love the beards.
Speaking as a former protestant pastor, I would be a priest if it was an option open to me. Not advocating for changes to priest hood (celibacy ect.), just saying there are those like me that could help. I am pursuing the diaconate but this is a 4-5 year process in my area. Even then the deacon role is typically not paid, voluntary and often part time. Trying to help my parish as I can but I must be bi-vocational to pay the bills so my time and attention are split. Maybe the church could explore non-ordained pastoral care paid roles.
There isn't a priest shortage. Many excellent priests have been canceled because they actually teach the Catholic faith. In the Traditional Latin Mass communities vocations are booming.
Parishes grounded in and built around the old Mass attract young people who eventually have large families.
These large families then produce abundant vocations.
The wonderful SSPX chapel I am fortunate to attend printed a list of vocations to the priesthood and relogious life from that chapel in its bulletin, as reference for parishioners to include in their prayers. They had to suspend printing it because it ended up taking too much space in the bulletin.
This same chapel is now out of space and has initiated the planning process to build a new, much larger chapel a few miles away.
This sort of vocational abundance could be the mainstream church's if its churchmen were willing to reconsider many of the fundamental assumptions that the post Vatican II-diocesan model is built on.
I think Traditionis Custodes made it worse exponentially.
If they’d lift the arbitrary, unscriptural ban on 52% of the world’s population, the shortage would be over.😊
No shortage of deacons or bishops!
The church has a tough job: teaching people that Jesus exists, that the church's teachings align with the Bible, etc. And then the scandal hits. Proof of widespread inappropriate contact at a systemic level. The notion that the church is inspired and correct is no longer a given, and this weakens all of the church's teachings because it is quite obvious that the church is not inspired. The only explanation that makes sense in this context and my other observations about the church's pandering to liberals vs conservatives is that the church is a business. It makes business decisions like any other business and this does not involve God. It's a shame.
Bishop Strickland's diocese eas booming with people even moving there to be with him. So, of course, Francis cancelled him.
Not all priests deserve to be reverenced. McCarrick did not deserve reverence.
There is a boom in the SSPX and Eastern Catholic Church membership since the release of Traditionis Custodes. Thank you Pope Francis.
Altar boys were our future priests. So the New Order Mass destroyed that. Good going Paul Vl
unfortunately during that active time of altar boys was the most active time of young men being abused by the priests. the switch to adults as concelebrants, probably helped to open the mouths of the abused and it started to slow down with the revelations.
John Paul 2 undermined the change from Alter boys to alter servers and allowed girls. This undermined the purpose to get young boys closer to the alter to understand the grace of being at the foot of the cross.
Don't forget, the altar boys also kept the older priests interested. and the old timey cassocks were great because you could hide two or more altar boys in your robes.
Note, talk to the traditional thinking young men.
They are disappointed that so any clergy, & churches are secular in actions.
Weak clergy accepting what secular parishioners say. Not directing the people.
Devoted Catholics want the traditional church back. Clergy, & parishioners.
I see several recent videos saying ordinations are on the rise in the US, and also several protestant videos discussing why their most educated theologians are becoming catholic. Keep praying, but dare I hope the catholic Renaissance is underway?
Edit: by the way, when I inquired about becoming a deacon, I got the answer that I was 61 years old and the cutoff is 60. Hey, worried about my health? At least call me in and do something..take my pulse!
The church has a PR problem, not an issue with too few people being interested.
We're starved spiritually. And the Catholic Church holds the answer. Jesus is the body and blood in the eucharist. He's there to feed us spiritually. The protestant doesn't have that
Id like to make myself believe,That planet earth turns slowly
I know it is a big problem, but if they start using AI for confession, etc., I would leave and quickly.
I Hope you guys plus Father answer me. Thanks❤ I watched the real messages our Mother Mary sends to Luz and St. Michael , Mother Mary said, confess your sins more often, that your souls is ready.❤ I am sick in pain in bed, priest is not inside my heart and soul to see when I need to confess, when I ask priest please come for my confession, he said it is not time yet, it has to be one month.❤ I am trying not to get angry❤ are we sick people left overs? Oh let's taking care of church people first.❤ What should I do?❤ Nobody from other TH-cam answer me❤ hope you guys do❤ Bless you guys❤
I feel God calling me to the priesthood but I'm married. I still want to be apart of a vocation
You can be an ordained priest with orthodoxy or a pastor as a protestant, but not catholicism, sorry :(
Marriage is a vocation
Marriage is a vocation. Fatherhood is a vocation. You are the head of your domestic church. Now fill it with lots of kids. :)
@@Gunfighter95 or eastern catholic. or be a deacon.
Be a deacon
Bringing back in all parishes the TLM will attract more vocations.
Well ppl talking horrible about priest is probably part of the problem
I listen to parishioners after mass. Most is focused on Sally and her cheerleading or Jimmy made golf jr spot. No one speaking regarding church. Mostly bragging.
Parish priest. Whom is fantastic. Has to bend to his parishioners. Those writing the check. It's sad. The church. Has become a political , financial pawn.
If Priests were Allowed to get married I would become a Priest Myself.
I heard that Catholic Priests not getting married in the Catholic Church is a Discipline and not an actual Law but the Bishops, and Pope refuse to Allow Priests to get Married.
Instead I am discerning becoming a Deacon because they can have a Wife and Children. 🎉
You can only be a married Deacon if you are already married before you begin the journey to becoming a Deacon.
@ I know. I’ve been researching it for a year now.
Talk orders are exploding in vocations
Priests being celibate is a discipline, the rule could change. I’m not sure it would drastically make a change but is it worth considering? Our Eastern Brothers, that are in communion with Rome, have married Priests and seem to function with reverence and pastoral care. Thank God for so many Priests coming from Kenya, Nigeria and Vietnam filling the void in the US.
No change to celibacy. The reason are valid to retain.
In my diocese in Canada most of our new priests are coming from Africa and India. I hear that in certain African countries there are more applicants to the priesthood than there are spaces in seminaries.
It make big change, in Ukraine priests are married and have many children, with time their children get married and grandchildren get married, so it create big Christian community connected by church and common ancestors.
Barely any money in the baskets as is. How is your congregation going to pay for you, your wife, and your kids??? You would need a second or third job.
@@tmartin-wong8602 Funny, no money in the basket is no problem in churches that do not mandate celebacy. And mandatory celebacy is nothing other than a manmade innovation only half as old as the Church.I suppose if latin priests started wearing clown suits to celebrate mass back at the time of the Schism, Trads would want to return to that,too.
Families used to have many children and one would be dedicated to God, maybe it's time to do that again. A social worker makes about 100k/year, maybe upping the wage?
Priests come in numbers, not quantities.
Quality is better than quantity.
I am Episcopalian, our new rector is a former RC priest. He wanted to marry.