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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jun 6, 2021 13:25:50 GMT -5
The Louisville Archdiocese has an arrangement with the dioceses in Vietnam and we just ordained two Vietnamese priests a couple of weeks ago. Louisville has enjoyed increasing numbers of seminarians over the past few years.
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Post by thecrossisback on Jun 6, 2021 14:49:32 GMT -5
I know but I thought it was an interesting article.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 6, 2021 15:52:37 GMT -5
I have a high school classmate who entered a religious order with a Seminary in upstate NY in August after HS graduation. We gave him a blowout send off party. Three weeks later he was back home stating that the full length burlap robes were hot and scratchy against his skin and he couldn't stand them.
He enrolled in George Washington University. At the five year reunion he was in a stylish suit befitting his new corporate job in sales. At the ten year reunion he was in a Roman collar either on his way or fully ordained as a Parish Priest in Vermont.
At the fifteen year reunion (I may be getting these reunions off by a half decade or so) he was on loan or filling a temporary position at the Vatican and home for the holidays when we traditionally held our reunions. He was enthused and excited about his career as a Priest. He was passionate about social justice and I reminded him about when we used to hitch hike home after school in the late sixties he was reading Ronald Reagan's book and praising his conservative philosophy. He laughed and said he had changed his outlook.
At the twenty year (or 25-30 can't remember exactly) reunion he was again dressed in a stylish business suit this time with a beautiful wife or fiance on his arm. He was back in the corporate world doing well and very happy.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jun 6, 2021 16:11:26 GMT -5
The days of a life long career with a single corporation have passed.🤔
Best to diversity your Resume. 😊
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Post by Tom on Jun 7, 2021 9:38:32 GMT -5
Better be careful. There was a kid who graduated HC about 20 years ago who wanted to be a Jesuit. They assigned him to help out in a parish and he discovered he liked the parish work. I believe he left the Jesuits and is now a diocesan priest in the Boston archdiocese
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Post by Tom on Jun 7, 2021 9:39:47 GMT -5
That's a Priest every seven or eight years. I think that up through 60's/70's it would be unusual if there wasn't a priest in each grad class I am sad to say that I think my class (1985) is the first to have zero priests among our ranks
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Post by Tom on Jun 7, 2021 9:56:33 GMT -5
The Priesthood will be coed in ______ years? I'll say within twenty years. It worked for Holy Cross, it worked for Regis College, Emmanuel, Anna Maria, etc. It didn't work for Annhurst College, I believe they closed while still an all women Catholic College. There are single sex Catholic High Schools left but no single sex men's Catholic colleges and only three total. Of the 33 women's colleges a handful are Catholic. The all male Priesthood has lasted for two millennium but self preservation is a powerful instinct. It might depend on if the developing world adopts the gender equity positions of the West. Single sex American colleges going coed and the Priesthood are not exactly apples to apples I know. I'm going to say not in my lifetime. I don't fully understand the rules, but I have been told there is some theological reason woman can't be priests. On an offshoot, there is no theological reason a married man can't become a priest. It happens in rare occasions today and used to be fairly common. The whole concept that a priest has to be single is openly admitted as a made up rule. If we're worried about a priest shortage, I think it likely the priesthood will be widely opened to married men before women. On a strange side note showing how screwy some of these things can be, as I understand it, although there is no theological issue with a married man becoming a priest, the opposite is not true and there is some theological issue with an ordained priest getting married. That is why a permanent deacon who becomes widowed cannot remarry.
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Post by thecrossisback on Jun 7, 2021 10:16:07 GMT -5
Did any of the Jesuits ever coach or help coach an athletics team at HC?
Fr. Hart ran the intramural sports?
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jun 7, 2021 10:27:27 GMT -5
magazine.holycross.edu/issue_43_2/43_2_reidyFr. Maurice Reidy, was instrumental in starting the Lacrosse program at HC, and was involved in coaching the kickers in football according to this article in the HC magazine. Fr. Maurice Reidy, was also instrumental as an advisor to the flying club. There are stories a member of the class of 1970, that once landed and took off from atop Mt. St. James. It would have been interesting to have heard the conversation between Fr. Mo, and a certain friend of ours.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jun 7, 2021 10:59:44 GMT -5
Father Reidy also holds the distinction of having served as an official in a home football game. One of the officials either was sick or got injured (I forget) and Father Reidy, wearing a cassock, helped with the first down chain during the game.
The urban legend on campus was that he had led the nation in punting when he was in college.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 7, 2021 11:11:22 GMT -5
Father Reidy also holds the distinction of having served as an official in a home football game. One of the officials either was sick or got injured (I forget) and Father Reidy, wearing a cassock, helped with the first down chain during the game. The urban legend on campus was that he had led the nation in punting when he was in college. From 17 years ago. Your mind hasn't started to slip. www.voy.com/61698/3/27830.html
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jun 7, 2021 11:22:28 GMT -5
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jun 7, 2021 12:01:33 GMT -5
The PP, thanks for posting the Hoya Roster from 1931. Beside the weights being decidedly different from today’s standards, I noticed that Georgetown had a non catholic on their roster. Mush Dubofsky. He certainly must have encountered a host of headwinds playing at a Catholic University in the 1930’s. It is a credit to Georgetown, that his association continued with the school as a Coach, especially in a pre Vatican II environment. www.jewsinsports.org/profile_sport_football_ID_115.html
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 7, 2021 17:31:31 GMT -5
magazine.holycross.edu/issue_43_2/43_2_reidyFr. Maurice Reidy, was instrumental in starting the Lacrosse program at HC, and was involved in coaching the kickers in football according to this article in the HC magazine. Fr. Maurice Reidy, was also instrumental as an advisor to the flying club. There are stories a member of the class of 1970, that once landed and took off from atop Mt. St. James. It would have been interesting to have heard the conversation between Fr. Mo, and a certain friend of ours. I had Fr. Reidy in the flying club. He made it enjoyable while being very safety conscious. I got as far as making a touch and go landing at the Sterling Airport with the instructor but also realized that my having to close my eyes when I was riding over the Bourne and Sagamore bridges as a passenger was due to a mild but definite fear of heights. When I looked out the window of the light plane I had great anxiety thinking only a quarter inch of plexiglass separated me from sure death. That and the cost of getting a pilot's license ended my participation but Fr. Reidy was very nice about it. My strategy of driving over tall bridges today is to stay in a middle lane and look straight ahead and for flying commercial to sit in an aisle seat and read something. I can't afford a bus like John Madden.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jun 7, 2021 18:45:08 GMT -5
Have you driven over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge?
I believe I flew in the same Piper Cherokee as you. The pilot who allegedly landed and took off from Mt. St. James, where the Luth Athletics Complex is located was a friend in college. Cost was a prohibitive factor, to earn a flying license, even for those like me who enjoy flying. Aviation fuel is expensive, and one does not fly when the gauge is approaching E.
I always select the window seat when flying commercial, if possible, as I enjoy spotting landmarks from the air, i.e, Niagara Falls, the Finger Lakes and the Great Lakes in the east, and in the west, the e Black Hills, the Grand Canyon, the Columbia River Gorge, Puget Sound and the mountains in the ring of fire, especially Mt Shasta, Mt. Hood and Mt. Rainer.
Still waiting to hit Lotto, so they I can subscribe to a NetJets share for travel. 😊 Sorry to digress, my recollection of Fr. Maurice Reidy was cheerful.
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