Shortage of priests
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 06:30:56 +0000
This refers to your interesting story “Gay priests ‘acceptable’,” The Manila Times, November 6, 2004.
Discussing “gay priests” to help solve the shortage of good priests would be unnecessary if our bishops started a campaign to attract widowed senior citizens to become priests.
In Sydney, a 71-year-old widow has just been ordained priest. And he was ordained in the same church where he got married. And he is probably the oldest man ever to be ordained priest in Australia.
Indeed, ordaining widowed senior citizens as priests is probably one of the best ways to solve the shortage of priests in the world. For when you are old and widowed and have nothing else to do but to prepare for the next life, probably, the best way to spend the remaining days of your life is to serve God by becoming a priest.
Oscar R. Landicho
Sydney, Australia
Life is bigger than politics
The way the US presidential candidates handled the outcome of their last elections only proved why America is progressive and why the Philippines, on the other hand, is going down the drain.
Imagine, with a country so huge and the votes so close between them, the losing candidate conceded within 12 hours after they closed their polling stations. That’s faster than the filibustering speech of our self-serving politicians.
Politicians should love their country above else. Even President Bush said—life is bigger than politics, and we should always move on.
Hope this will be a wake-up call.
John Dee
jon_dee01@yahoo.com