Friday, January 20, 2012

Mandatory celibacy?

It's supported among:

" 81% of priests ordained less than 10 years ago but only [supported by] 38% of priests ordained between 30 and 40 years ago..."

Snippets from CNS reporter Nancy Frazier O'Brien's timely article Evidence 'incontrovertible' that priests are happy, research finds. In Today's Catholic. Friday, January 13, 2012.

MORE:

The research also indicated that younger priests take seriously so - called "traditional prayer practices."

We're told that these are practices "such as eucharistic adoration and recitation of the rosary, but not out of a desire to return to a pre - Vatican II church. "

Plus as we've already quoted above, such younger priests "also are much more likely than those in the middle years of their priesthood to affirm the value of celibacy ..."

Not bad! :)

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