Posted on 08/30/2019 11:13:16 AM PDT by ebb tide
Edited on 08/30/2019 12:10:37 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Bishop Reinhold Nann, 59, of Caravelí Diocese, Peru, had more priests, he would not know how to organize a living from them from the "meager offers" coming from the villages.
Nann was born in Germany and belonged to the Schönstatt Movement. He told Die-Tagespost.de (August 29) that as missionary priest he took care of an Amazon parish with 37 villages.
The bishop witnessed that the Amazon people do not care to live according to Catholic morals. Therefore viri probati [married men who could be ordained as priests] hardly exist:
“Men living in sacramental marriage are a rare species in a region where most of t he laity lives together unmarried.”
Nann also debunks the myth of an alleged "hunger" for the Eucharist: “In the Amazon [as well as in most of the Catholic Church], the Eucharist is not really in demand by the locals. A liturgy of the word is for most like a mass.”
The bishop added that only “we theologians” think that the Eucharist is the most important thing.
Ping
Well, at least he’s honest. He obviously hasn’t done much to change the situation, but you do have to give him credit for realism.
Based only on info in the post (German missionary priest now a bishop aged 59 in Peru) I suspect Father is a social worker liberation-theology priest of the V2 church of the new man-centered religion, who never brought the TLM to his missionary field. Results are as would be expected.
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