LAFAYETTE – Celibacy isn’t the only aspect of Roman Catholic priesthood that is dissuading young Catholic men from entering the seminary.<\/p>\n
Salary, insurance and retirement plans need to be updated for the modern Roman Catholic church to be more viable in today’s competitive business climate, according to some Acadiana Roman Catholic priests.<\/p>\n
“It’s the modern world we live in,” said the Rev. Robert Fisher, St. Anthony Church pastor. “There are countless other opportunities today for younger people to make a better living for themselves that weren’t there in the early 20th century, when being a priest was a more prestigious occupation.” And passing along by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea; for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, “Follow me and I will make you become fishers of men.” Simon Peter then asked “Do you offer a 401k plan with health benefits” and Jesus answered “Come and see my competitive offer for Tuition Reimbursement, Disability, Dental & Optical, and full medical coverage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LAFAYETTE – Celibacy isn’t the only aspect of Roman Catholic priesthood that is dissuading young Catholic men from entering the seminary. Salary, insurance and retirement plans need to be updated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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