From
Jane Anderson’s “Priest in Love: Roman Catholic Clergy and Their Intimate
Friendships” (a book of interviews with Australian priests) (p. 101; respaced
from original):
One
priest who frequents Rome reported to me a conversation that he had with the
superior general of a major religious order.
“He told
me that the Vatican had just sought his recommendation. It wanted a priest from his order to serve as
bishop of an unnamed diocese in Latin America.
Reason: of the sixty-three diocesan priests in that area who had the
education background to be a bishop, none of them was celibate. They all had wives and families.”
My
correspondent then went on to say that the ubiquity of this phenomenon could be
checked out in the “Annuario Pontificio”, the Vatican Yearbook, where one can
see just how many bishops in Latin America are religious.
. . .
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