Article: Maybe dearth of celibate clergy is nudging church to start over. (Roman Catholic Church)(Column)

Recently Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland said naming parish administrators is an inadequate solution to the priest shortage. We are, he said, slowly becoming a church of the word only.

What an amazing impasse: the Catholic church done in not by the Protestant Reformation but by our own timidity. This, great church obdurately chooses to allow rapidly growing numbers of Catholic communities - more than 60 percent worldwide, it is said - to languish without the Eucharist.

I am of the opinion that the movement that blossomed as Vatican II received its vital energy from Pope Pius X's decrees early in this century promoting frequent and universal communion. ...

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