An old heretic surfaces with an old idea...
Yesterday it was reported that Leonardo Boff, an infamous, liberal, eccentric ex-priest, has claimed that Pope Francis may grant a special request by the Brazilian bishops to allow married priests to resume their priestly ministry. It seems the idea is intended in some way to address the devastating shortage of vocations in that country; Brazil has 140 million Catholics, but only 1,800 priests, which Boff correctly assesses to be a “catastrophe”. Of course, the idiot answer is to increase the liberal momentum that has caused this erosion. Perhaps a more intelligent approach might be to look to countries who benefit from better ratios in this regard as I have alluded to here and here . Some of you might be scratching your heads as to who this Boff character is. Well, you can read the CDF's opinion of him for yourself here . But I have blogged before about him in the context of ecumenism . Fundamentally, the flaw in Boff’s thinking is the thesis he promotes...