{"id":24716,"date":"2009-06-12T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/where-are-all-the-priests\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:00:22","slug":"where-are-all-the-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/where-are-all-the-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are all the priests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Priestly%20Ordination%202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Priestly Ordination 2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Priestly Ordination 2-thumb-240x318.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"318\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>A recent article on who has competence to remove priests from ministry permanently is interesting and yet depressing. But it is a matter of reality that some men ordained to the priesthood of Jesus Christ do not remain priests. To think since the Second Vatican Council, as some researchers and commentators have &nbsp;claimed, 100,000 priests have left their vocation as priests. If true, this fact is overwhelming to grasp.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One of my intentions is to pray for the priests who have left as well as though who currently serve as priests and seminarians preparing to be ordained. I am a bit selfish in mentioning the last intention since I fall in that category. Please join me in prayer in the coming year for these intentions.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiancatholic.in\/news\/storydetails.php\/12367-1-4-Laicizing-priests-now-easier-for-clergy-congregation\">Read the article<\/a>&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article on who has competence to remove priests from ministry permanently is interesting and yet depressing. But it is a matter of reality that some men ordained to the priesthood of Jesus Christ do not remain priests. To think since the Second Vatican Council, as some researchers and commentators have &nbsp;claimed, 100,000 priests &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/where-are-all-the-priests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where are all the priests?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}