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April 25, 2005
Emanations of Penumbras of Vatican II
Father Silva said he believed that priests' views about Benedict generally divided on a generational line. The youngest priests, ordained in the last 20 years, seem most excited and pleased at the thought of a pope with a clear, structured, conservative approach to theology and firm boundaries and guidelines, Father Silva said. Some older priests - those ordained in the mid-1960's to mid-1980's, in the years after the Second Vatican Council and its promises of openness to modern times and to lay people - seem "not so enthused," he said.The New York Times publishes speculations on the clerical generation gap.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at April 25, 2005 7:41 AM