[Magdalen] Those Who Stay/Depart

[Grace Cangialosi]

And many of the married deacons who would like to be priests aren’t happy about it. And some are angry about the fact that the RC Church will take married Episcopal priests. One Catholic deacon told me it felt like a slap in the face.
My prediction for a long time has been that they will allow married priests and fairly soon, because of the shortage of priests. And I think they will ultimately ordain women. After all, Pope Francis has raised the idea of women deacons. And that’s how we started. I think it’s the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent!
And there are already some 200 RC women who have been ordained priests and serve clandestine congregations. I believe that, like our Philadelphia 11, their ordinations are valid but irregular and they have at least one Bishop.

> On Jun 12, 2018, at 10:53 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> They do, of course, ordain married men as deacons. That probably encourages
> more vocations. The ordinariate, like the eastern rite Catholic churches,
> also allows married men to be priests.
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> On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 3:48 PM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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>> It's interesting that at least locally, the RC's are making up for the
>> dearth of priestly candidates with large numbers of deacons.  Women,
>> of course, are not on the horizon.
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>> The RCC priestly ordinations are so unusual now that such a liturgy
>> makes headline news.  Such an event for 2 priestly candidates, the first
>> in two years, was front page in the local journal.  One of those priestly
>> ordinands is 65.
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>> There were 12 deacons at the same liturgy, and that was just this year's
>> crop.
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>> David S.
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>> In a message dated 6/12/2018 3:39:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> michaudme at gmail.com writes:
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>> RCs ordain women.
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