Why blame celibacy?

Priests are not ordained to become, for instance, rectors, presidents, deans, regents, treasurers of schools or administrators of attached institutions such as hospitals, even if such institutions are

Most recently, quite a number of parochial schools managed by religious sisters were taken over by the local clergy after being sent by their superiors to gobble up

Not to demean priests handling such jobs or apostolates, these posts, however, should have been assigned to an “empowered trained for these tasks, thereby enabling the priests to “mind

the opinion that priests should relinquish teaching loads in the seminaries to lay people who could be trained and educated to handle theological, philosophical and biblical subjects so that priests can focus on preaching

And lastly, young people are always honed to action via role modeling and hero worship, at least for openers since their lofty ideals have to be concret-

I am one with the rest of the clergy in saying, “ Probably, we failed as models

The above observations may seem simplistic and may not even touch the tip of the problem, but definitely they could defocus the issue of the shortage of Catholic priests from the