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Church running out of holy priests.
(From Manila Standard)
"We are running out of saintly priests."
Celebrating his first year as a bishop yesterday, Manila Auxiliary Bishop Socrates Villegas disclosed a plan to heal fallen priests--and it is not to send them a psychiatrist.
Rather, Villegas thinks the best way is to let them "live in a convent with a holy priest."
But how many holy priests are there? By his own admission, "we are running out of saints in the convents and rectories."
Sending a priest with sexual problems or proclivities to a psychologist or psychiatrist should not be taken as a primary solution, Villegas said. Instead, priests can be reformed by closely observing how pious priests live their lives and how they resist temptation.
In his homily during the midday mass at Edsa Shrine yesterday, the 41-year-old bishop and parish priest admitted that the biggest obstacle faced by the Roman Catholic Church in the last year was the sex ...
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