Time Magazine Does Second Women Priest Article in Two Weeks!!

Does anyone find this strange? A secular magazine so interested and so one sided as to affairs in the Catholic Church.

Get Religion that looks at how the secular media rips into this piece of "journalism" here at Womenpriest trend pieces past expiration date?.

Let me add a few thoughts here.

First the article fails to note the whole new Anglican Structure that is coming online. Needless to say they would not be coming over if they thought there were going to be female Priests and Bishops.

Second why oh why are these articles aways viewed though the Latin Church viewpoint. There are many Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome. If the Catholic Church had female Priests and Bishops it would cause a historic break. The Catholic Church just does not include Latin rite Catholics but include Eastern Churches that are in Union with Peter.

Third where are the Eastern Orthodox in this article? The highest priority of the Vatican is reunification with what John Paul the II called the Second Lung of the Church. That being the various 300 million Orthodox Christians. Such a move would not drive a nail into the coffin as to that no doubt there would be massive defection of Catholics to Orthodoxy.

Let me quote the last paragraph
Numbers may force Rome's hand. Since 1985, the number of U.S. Catholic priests has plunged almost a third, to fewer than 40,000; more than 3,400 American parishes are without a resident priest, up from 1,051. To replenish the ranks, the church will probably let male priests marry before it ever ordains women. But the female priests say this should be about doing the right thing, not just the numerical thing. That's the chant from their makeshift altars — and with an unintentional assist from Rome, they're finally being heard.

First there is evidence that Vocation crisis has bottomed out. In fact in many Orthodox Dioceses there are an abundance of vocations. That sadly never gets reported because it is a threat to agendas I fear. Second it might shock people but there were times in these Country and other places where Priests were quite rare. The people still kept their faith and spread it just fine. Why Priests shortages are not great we have had them before.