We Can’t Afford Married Priests?
Photo ~ Fr Dwight Longenecker, a former Anglican minister who entered the Roman Catholic Church in 1995. Fr. Dwight is an author, speaker, and parish priest serving at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in …More
Photo ~ Fr Dwight Longenecker, a former Anglican minister who entered the Roman Catholic Church in 1995. Fr. Dwight is an author, speaker, and parish priest serving at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Greenville, South Carolina.
Con: “We can’t afford married priests! Do you know how much it would cost to support a married man and his family!”
Pro: “Surely the question is not whether we could afford married priests, but whether we should. But let’s stop and consider that we already pay for celibate priests. It varies from diocese to diocese and around the world the situation will vary hugely according to different cultural conditions. Let’s just consider the American scene.
Many Catholics have no idea in the world what a priest is paid. Many imagine that we all take a vow of poverty and that we live day by day on faith. Some think the bishop pays us. He doesn’t the parish pays according to guidelines issued by the diocese.
Most celibate priests in American dioceses do pretty well. Here’s …More
Con: “We can’t afford married priests! Do you know how much it would cost to support a married man and his family!”
Pro: “Surely the question is not whether we could afford married priests, but whether we should. But let’s stop and consider that we already pay for celibate priests. It varies from diocese to diocese and around the world the situation will vary hugely according to different cultural conditions. Let’s just consider the American scene.
Many Catholics have no idea in the world what a priest is paid. Many imagine that we all take a vow of poverty and that we live day by day on faith. Some think the bishop pays us. He doesn’t the parish pays according to guidelines issued by the diocese.
Most celibate priests in American dioceses do pretty well. Here’s …More
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The liberal population really is obsessed with wanting to see priests having sex!
They ether want heterosexual priests having sex, or gay practicing priests, or the worst women priests.
The moment any one of these are excepted Catholics will be in big trouble!
Lord have mercy!
They ether want heterosexual priests having sex, or gay practicing priests, or the worst women priests.
The moment any one of these are excepted Catholics will be in big trouble!
Lord have mercy!
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For the U of IL, tuition, room and board and misc expenses for residents total $30 - $35k/year. For non-residents it's $10k more.
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There are individuals who post nothing more than quote followed by quote followed by quote, day after day after day clearly have nothing of substance to say but are simply trying unsuccessfully to mask their ignorance while satisfying their obsessive-compulsive disorder to post something regardless of its irrelevance.
They deceive no one other than themselves if they think spam postings accomplish anything other than to manifest their obsessiveness and lack of common sense much less intelligence.
Responses to the full article indicate that his figures are not typical for a US priest. Also:
1. For the poorer parishes the diocese supplements the salaries.
2. I notice that Fr Longenecker has young children. If they attend a reasonably priced state university, it will cost about $25,000 a year.
3. A priest I know, ordained for 30+ years, told me that his archdiocese opted out of Social Security …More
Responses to the full article indicate that his figures are not typical for a US priest. Also:
1. For the poorer parishes the diocese supplements the salaries.
2. I notice that Fr Longenecker has young children. If they attend a reasonably priced state university, it will cost about $25,000 a year.
3. A priest I know, ordained for 30+ years, told me that his archdiocese opted out of Social Security for some years. Consequently, his SS check will be not very much.
1. For the poorer parishes the diocese supplements the salaries.
2. I notice that Fr Longenecker has young children. If they attend a reasonably priced state university, it will cost about $25,000 a year.
3. A priest I know, ordained for 30+ years, told me that his archdiocese opted out of Social Security for some years. Consequently, his SS check will be not very much.