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Post by theguvnor on Oct 19, 2023 12:28:57 GMT
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Post by tisbearself on Oct 19, 2023 15:30:03 GMT
If she were male and living in USA, varsity football could have used her. That's some good speed and tackling skill right there.
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Post by theguvnor on Oct 19, 2023 15:38:21 GMT
The idiot eco-protestor at the end of the video then stamps on the pipe. Thus polluting the earth he stamps it into.
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Post by iagosan on Oct 24, 2023 7:07:13 GMT
Muscular Christianity (literally) being practised by a Bride of Christ to assist the building of a Catholic Centre! What`s not to like!!
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Post by tisbearself on Oct 29, 2023 7:40:22 GMT
The Register has published the full backstory behind the tackling nun. In a nutshell, trad community decides to build a pilgrimage center to accommodate the many pilgrims who come to pay homage to Our Lady of the Snows. The community goes through the whole complicated civil process to get the building permissions, and wind up getting support from the civil government, opposition from crazy eco-protesters and anti-Catholics, then their bishop and the Vatican (anti-trad Carballo) try to shut them down, bishop ends up leaving the diocese so they’re waiting for a new one to be appointed. Still, they persevere. It’s also increasingly obvious that the way vocations are going in France, pretty soon only the trad communities will produce any… www.ncregister.com/news/story-of-nun-and-activist-altercation?amp |
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Post by theguvnor on Oct 29, 2023 11:43:36 GMT
The tables on the link below go up to 2021. You will note that in less than 30 years there has been a massive drop in vocations: www.ukvocation.org/statisticsI've put in an enquiry about the diaconate program myself now. The problem is since they require you to hold an advanced degree and a host of other conditions they are freezing out some people who could fill these roles. The number of people like myself who hold several degrees is small in any country and I only hold them due to studying later in life. Our local parish priests both have PhDs, one has a double doctorate. However, recruiting among such groups is to recruit amongst a vanishingly small number of people. There is a real need to find some means to counter this or we will soon have zero clergy. You saw the situation in Ireland where getting a priest to say a funeral Mass will soon prove to be difficult. We are close to that in the UK. |
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Post by tth1 on Oct 29, 2023 14:32:52 GMT
I do not see the need for someone to have a degree to enter the priesthood. They receive six or seven years of education at the seminary. That should be more than sufficient. To me it seems similar to saying you cannot come to this university to read [subject] unless you have a degree. It's nonsense!
Some educational qualifications for the permanent diaconate may be in order because they do not receive the same in-depth education and formation as a priest. However, I don't believe it should be open to graduates only. There are many intelligent men who have not received an advanced eudcation who would make very good deacons. There are many graduates who may have recieved a higher education but lack intelligence.
Of course, this may be linked to the dumbing down of education. Jobs aren't available like they used to be. Therefore, most 16-year-olds have to remain in education. To achieve this it has to be easier to earn a pass grade at GCSE than it used to be at O Level. Consequently, this has meant A Levels, in their turn, have also been dumbed down. It is now, therefore, not uncommon for jobs, etc. to be only open to graduates as they are considered to be the ones who stand out. May be, therefore, the Church no longer considers those with GCSEs and A Levels to be adequately educated. However, I still maintain that possession of formal academic qualifications need not be a major determinant in choosing candidates for the permanent diaconate.
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Post by theguvnor on Oct 29, 2023 14:59:57 GMT
The path to the diaconate for the Diocese for Westminster requires you to be qualified to MA level by the end of it. There are numerous other conditions such as pyschological assessments and interviews.
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Post by tisbearself on Oct 30, 2023 1:04:54 GMT
Well here's the typical requirements for a US permanent deacon, there is 6 years of study involved but no degree requirements and you don't get a degree by completing the program: www.arlingtondiocese.org/vocations/permanent-diaconate/It's likely in US nowadays that a lot of Catholic men applying to be permanent deacons would already have a bachelor's degree because these days many people get one (although many such degrees are of dubious quality). But a lot of our permanent deacons don't come off as particularly educated fellows, if anything their people skills are more important because they spend most of their time interacting with parishioners. |
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