The problem in Arlington is the bishop there who apparently has a live-in Franciscan companion and punishes priests who blow the whistle on the scandalous doings that broke out after Bishop Keating's death. This appointment was prior to the recent wave of actually Catholic appointments elsewhere. If Christendom tudents are entering a seminary under the current Arlington bishop, they ought to know better.
As to numbers dying and numbers being ordained, what did you expect ater a generation of Jadot AmChurch bishops? My diocese (relatively small but quite orthodox Rockford) ordained 11 this year alone and has 48 seminarians. Another class of 11 will be ordained in a year or two. Many are home grown and recruited through the Knights of Columbus councils or from home-schooling famlies.
The older priests who are dying are often the aging revolutionaries. Seminary officials in most seminaries, and especially the ones in the Vatican where bishops are often prepared, are of the elder generation and complain and whine endlessly about the conservatism of today's seminarians. Brighten up. Better times are coming.
No one is bringing in priests of the Red Chinese "Patriotic" Church which is, ummmm, schismatic. The underground and actual Catholic Church in China is unlikely to be sending its priests here and, if it did, we would be privileged to be served by living martyrs in the mold of the late Ignatius Cardinal Kung who spent his final years at St. John Fisher Residence in Stamford, Connecticut, after many years in red prisons.
If the bishop of Arlington is ordering that Catholics NOT receive on their knees, he is directly defying a Vatican order that was issued about one year ago. Charlie Wilson and the St. Jose[ph Foundation in Texas will, no doubt, be happy to litigate this successfully in Canon Law courts.
Thanks for the background info.
This appointment was prior to the recent wave of actually Catholic appointments elsewhere.
Keating hasn't been gone that long. I guess they were still appointing members of the gay mafia as recently as 5 years ago.
If Christendom tudents are entering a seminary under the current Arlington bishop, they ought to know better.
I agree. But I personally know some people living in the diocese of Richmond who hope their son becomes a priest in the Arlington diocese. I guess they haven't heard the news.
My diocese (relatively small but quite orthodox Rockford) ordained 11 this year alone and has 48 seminarians.
Hurray for Rockford! But it makes Arlington look even worse. Arlington is not that small a diocese. I bet they have more Catholics than Rockford does.
If the bishop of Arlington is ordering that Catholics NOT receive on their knees, he is directly defying a Vatican order that was issued about one year ago.
I recently saw confirmation that Christendom caved to the bishop. A student posted info that in fact they are now requested not to kneel for communion and to maintain "unity of posture." So I guess a student wouldn't be expelled if he went ahead and knelt for communion, but it is no longer the standard practice at Christendom.
Christendom College's Chapel still has its Communion Rail. Until recently, the students, faculty, and townies used it in the traditional manner. Loverde ordered an end to the practice. I'm given to understand that many of the students still kneel to receive Communion. Most priests here are quite orthodox, but Loverde is no friend of orthodoxy and numbers of seminarians have dropped since he arrived.