This is the most current list.
I was thinking about posting this yesterday with a Duh! alert attached:
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A new vocations campaign is being launched by the U.S. bishops with the idea that more men simply need to be invited to become priests by priests who are happy with their lives. Announced in Washington Oct.14, the program, called Priestly Life and Vocation Summit: Fishers of Men, is based on having dioceses and religious orders convene priests to discuss their vocations, emphasizing the positive aspects, and then encouraging them to invite other men to consider following them. Father Edward Burns, director of the Secretariat for Vocations and Priestly Formation at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, cited a survey of the 2003 U.S. ordination class in which 78 percent of the men about to be ordained said a priest had invited them to consider the priesthood.
Well, nothing earth-shaking. Everything remains pretty much the same; a few details here and there change, but nothing else.
-Theo
Instead of Father's favorite TV sitcom, or what Oprah taught him about life?
One of the priests I know told me that this is how they were taught to preach in seminary. Of course, he went to a notorious Pink Palace, but from what I have seen, it doesn't really matter where they went. They are ignorant of doctrine, ignorant of devotion and piety, and believe that they are basically the budget version of Oprah or, on a good day, Dr. Phil. They misunderstand not only how to give a homily, but what the faith is about and what their job is in the first place.
I am rather disappointed the Synod did not present a uniform policy for dealing with anti-Catholic Catholic politicians. I think it should have explicity stated that the heresy presented by the likes of Durbin, Kennedy, and Schwarzenager should bar them from reception of communion for their un-Catholic views. Now more limp-wristed bishops will encourage them.