Most Western Bishops Want Married Priests - Belgian Bishop
"I know many bishops, and almost all of them — mostly from Western Europe — tell me that they also want to ordain married men," said Bishop Johan Bonny of Antwerp in an interview with Katholisch.de on 2 April.
In March, he announced his intention to ordain married men as priests by 2028.
"I have not yet heard a Catholic bishop tell me, 'Even if the Pope gives me the possibility, I will not ordain married men.' They know this in Rome as well."
Bishop Bonny worked in the Vatican for eleven years and is familiar with the different interests at play: "In Rome, they understand the situation here, and I know bishops and cardinals who support this solution, at least in Western Europe."
He believes that the ordination of married men as priests is "a great necessity". "The consensus is there."
Until the 1960s, a diocese such as Antwerp's had almost 1,500 active priests, as well as several hundred more who were retired. Now, the diocese has fewer than 100 priests, half of whom come from abroad. …More
Many priests went from Antwerp to The Netherlands for their formation, because they didn't want to become social workers in Antwerp. Others went to France. Many were discouraged. At some time praying the rosary was prohibited in the Flemish seminary in Leuven. All conservative movements are discouraged or prohibited. The dioceses in Flanders constantly praise women rights, homosexuality and blaim the celibacy for ... And then you say there are no vocations, and you need to protestantisize the priesthood, in a paid job for married men (state paid in Belgium), and already hinting for woman priests.... But they cannot find men for the married diaconate. If you do not pray for priests, if you do not honour them, if you degrade the sacraments ... then go and do something else, mgr Bonny.
Yeah….and I “want” the return and restoration of the Papal Tiara too, but I’m not gonna get it. So, there…
These apostates have already created their own schismatic, Anglican Pachamama-Bergo-Prevostian sect.
No surprise there. He also supports homosexuality and teaches that euthanasia is not “necessarily” wrong. This is what has become of the Catholic Church as promoted by the Conciliar Catholics led by the post-Vatican II popes and bishops. Opposing the TLM is just the least of their sins.
We cannot always get what we want. Christ gave us an example, and we must imitate Him, and not these bishops who are rejects from The Twilight Zone.