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I would think that as long as the MDiv requires an internship, there isn't a problem. And any BA in theology doesn't require any more or less hands-on than any other academic BA degree (unless that degree by nature requires hands-on).

Now, and MDiv without ANY hands-on would be something to cause brow raising.

Starkman

 

Don't you think that the term "hands on" is...umm...an UNFORTUNATE choice of words these days when used in connection with clergy training??

 

Sorta' gives the phrase "the laying on of hands" a whole new meaning, doesn't it.

[rim shot]

But seriously...

How sad it is that it's simply not possible for so many in today's society to think of clergy, generally, without the dark cloud of pedophilia at least visible on the distant horizon... or worse. I'm not indicting of Nosborne or others for making the perfectly understandable mental connection and subsequent observation; rather, I'm irritated with the clergy who brought this plague upon such an otherwise necessary and honorable vocation.

[sigh]

Pardon me. I'm just rambling, here.

 

Oh, I suppose so, nosborne, but, then again, it's job security for yet one more crooked and unethical lawyer to find work.

Starkman

Minister in the making

 

The current crisis with the Catholic clergy's "laying on of hands" will probably blow over; after all, who remembers those two Protestant ministers of the 1980s named Rev. Jimmy and their escapades?

Of course, I think the Catholic Church ought to abolish mandatory clerical celibacy. If you think about it, St. Peter was the first pope (at least according to the Catholic Church) and there was some story in the Bible about the healing of St. Peter's mother-in-law. I'm going to assume, until someone can give me a plausible alternative theory, that since St. Peter had a mother-in-law, he must have also had a wife. So, if the first pope was married, why shouldn't Catholic priests be allowed to marry?

There is a reason why Catholic priests are not allowed to marry. It is because of a certain not-so-innocent (and quite frankly morally corrupted piece of garbage) individual named Innocent III (pontiff in the early 1200s) that the idea of clerical celibacy was concocted as a means of raising mass quantities of money for an increasingly worldly, wealthy, and spiritually bankrupt church. How? Forbid as yet unmarried clergy to marry and force the married clergy to put away their wives. Then tax the clergy to legitimize their "bastard" children. And sell the "bastard" children into slavery if Father doesn't pay to have them legitimized. Oh, yes, and open up Church-sponsored legal brothels for all of your monks and university students and call them "nunneries."

And nowadays, they try to justify clerical celibacy as if it were some form of moral superiority. Give me a break! The vast majority of people are not cut out for the celibate life. The Church should not try to shoehorn people into being something they're not!

 

There is an old history professor from one of the University of California campuses named Page Smith who, in his _Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America_, opines what is wrong with higher education today is the flight from teaching and the meretriciousness of most academic research.