Father Alan Jurkus is back at it.Time to consider married priestsJSOnline This was from back on Nov 10th(see what happens when I get busy at work!).
As a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, I welcome Deacon Russ Arnett and his family and look forward to working with him after his ordination to the Catholic priesthood. He previously served as an Episcopal priest (Page 5B, Nov. 7).
I believe he will bring a special gift to our church as he is allowed to combine the two sacramental vocations of marriage and holy orders. This combination should be of great value to the work of the gospel.
At the same time, I regret that married baptized Catholics who wish to serve as priests are not afforded the same opportunity.
At a time when our church is in serious need of priests, it is my hope and prayer that the Holy Spirit will inspire a change in the current law and permit baptized married Catholics to serve as priests.
The Rev. A.F. Jurkus
Greenfield
Mr. Berres(a parishioner) had this to say:
The reference to law presumably is meant to eliminate any potential ambiguity that might otherwise leave the impression he's advocating women's ordination while avoiding saying so explicitly.Manufactured.Vocations.Crisis. These are the same people that rejected orthodox candidates because they were not pastoral enough. Read Good Bye, Good Men. They wanted low numbers to "force" the Church to allow for women "priests."
I never get this line of thinking anyway. If you want married clergy, there's plenty of Eastern Rite Catholic Churches around(especially in Milwaukee). Oh, but then he'd have to suffer through a beautiful liturgy. If you remember, he's not a fan.
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*sigh* I'm originally from Greendale; my parents still live there, within a half mile of St. Al's. My husband and I recently went back for a weekend and, due to scheduling, went to a Mass at that church (we usually go to my parents' parish church in south Milwaukee). We will never make that mistake again. I couldn't even count the number of GIRM issues, and I was so distracted that we ended up going to Mass later again when we got back to Madison.
P.S. Why does it say "Greenfield"? Why would Fr. Jerkus live so far from his parish?
Hmm, good question. We should ask Terry Berres, he's a parishioner.
http://berres.blogspot.com/2010/11/will-be-done.html
I think Terrence once noted where Fr. Jurkus lives and it is not in Franklin. This is one other ‘fall-out’ of the post Vat II era - that priests don’t always live in the rectory close by the parish church. In my parish I don’t know where our pastor (or the assisting priest who is retired but is still very active in the parish) lives. We have a rectory located next to the church, but it is used as a ‘parish center’.
Ab. Dolan recently commented on the difficulty people have trying to contact a priest – calls going unanswered or going to recording machines. I well know the demands made on priests’ time especially today where one may be serving multiple parishes. But is it too much to ask that they actually live in a recognizable rectory – and may actually be found there on occasion?
Nah, GOR--the generation of priests who are now aged between ~40 and ~70 years of age think of the priesthood as a "job" not a vocation.
And since Rembert gave them large-money salary packages, there's no interest in rectory-living. They can buy their own digs.
As a Byzantine catholic priest's wife (this has been our discipline for 2,000 years)- it is so insulting that he equates a married clergy with opening the doors to a woman priesthood. Disgusting and wrong
priest's wife: are you saying I made that equation or Jurkus? I don't see it in any statement in the above post. I stated that advocates for married clergy already have that option as Catholics in the Eastern Rites. If this crackpot wants women clergy(he doesn't say so explicitly), then obviously there is no place for him in the historic Church.
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