average age = 68. Most will be dead or senile in 15 years. Shelf-life for this group...oh about 3 years. Kumbaya, m’lord, kyumbaya....the times they are a changin!
My first thought: Great. Now the Vatican knows who not to make bishops. Second thought: There’s no-one under 75 in the photo to make a bishop.
Who’d ever have thought the ordination classes of the 1960s would age to be so dedicated to the notion of “those God-damned young priests; what the hell do they think they know?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAssDlvaxEM&feature=player_embedded
Six people in the whole organization with any trace of color in their hair.
A young-ish altar-serving woman,
A pianist who MAY be one of them, but probably not,
One guy in the foreground with an obvious dyejob (Note the white temples),
and three people who may be priests who are young enough to have some of their own color in their hair. I’d say average age = 68 is quite generous. I’d guess 78.
That appears to be a MASS. Notice everyone just sitting around, taking notes, pointed every which direction. No crucifix near the altar (there HAPPENS to be one on the side of the room, but it clearly is not there to serve a liturgical function.) And yes, there are 240 priests, but they still use an EME (EXTRA-ordinary minister of the Eucharist.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAssDlvaxEM&feature=player_embedded
Six people in the whole organization with any trace of color in their hair.
A young-ish altar-serving woman,
A pianist who MAY be one of them, but probably not,
One guy in the foreground with an obvious dyejob (Note the white temples),
and three people who may be priests who are young enough to have some of their own color in their hair. I’d say average age = 68 is quite generous. I’d guess 78.
That appears to be a MASS. Notice everyone just sitting around, taking notes, pointed every which direction. No crucifix near the altar (there HAPPENS to be one on the side of the room, but it clearly is not there to serve a liturgical function.) And yes, there are 240 priests, but they still use an EME (EXTRA-ordinary minister of the Eucharist.)