[Magdalen] Location, Location, Location.

[Sibyl Smirl]

We have an interesting RCC priest here (I hope he's still doing okay, 
haven't heard anything about him very recently, but then I wouldn't 
necessarily hear).  He started out in one of the Pentecostal churches 
here (I'm pretty sure, but one of the seriously Protestant churches like 
Baptist: not my own Campbellite, or I'd have remembered) and married, 
then converted to TEC, went to Seminary, and became a Priest, while 
raising several children, then converted to RCC, and they Received him 
as a Priest, somehow letting him bring his wife along.  He is or was 
officially attached to the college 16 miles north of me, mainly, but is 
in great demand in all the parishes around (they seem to sort of want to 
keep him and his wife out of parish work).  Both he and his wife have 
said in interviews that they they do believe that a Priest should _not_ 
be married, but they aren't about to break up their own family that came 
into that Church as a package deal.  He's also a motorcycle lover, and 
last time I noticed, does an annual "Blessing of the Bikes" for some 
kind of recurrent event.


On 6/5/16 1:19 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> I would guess many of them leave the RCC entirely as they are not able to
> exercise their ministries there. Likewise also monks and nuns who leave and
> marry?
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net
>> wrote:
>
>> She was speaking of RC priests who have left the priesthood so as to get
>> married - not retired priests. We have a friend who was an RC (Paulist)
>> priest who got married, and then had a successful career as an Episcopal
>> priest in the Dio. of Mass.
>>
>> Of course, allowing RC priests to get married and continue to serve would
>> solve their clergy shortage in a flash.
>>
>> Chad Wohlers
>> Woodbury, VT USA
>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2016 1:07 PM
>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>> Cc: Cantor03 at aol.com
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Location, Location, Location.
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/5/2016 8:03:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> michaudme at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> I was  thinking ... how sad that the RCC doesn't have the vision of married
>> former  priests excercising their diaconal ministries in the
>> parishes.>>>>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure exactly what you mean here, I guess, but I can tell you  that
>> retired RC priests are generally kept very busy liturgically, and also
>> perf
>> orm
>> hospital visitations, etc.  In fact a number of such retirees have  said
>> words
>> to the effect that they are busier since retirement than before.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>
>
>


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