MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS OF THE "NATIONAL cATHOLIC REPORTER" ACKNOWLEGES THE FOLLEY OF HETERODOX CATHOLICISM!

The money byte I have below the title is the most common sense thing I have ever read from Sean Michael Winters and ever to be seen in the National catholic Reporter!!!!!! 

 Press the title for the NcR commentary from Michael Sean Winters:

What a new survey of US Catholic priests does, and does not, tell us

Here's the most important thing from Winters:

Most of all, conservative families still encourage and produce vocations to the priesthood. The Catholic left has failed by comparison to produce vocations, and some live in a fantasy world that thought fewer vocations would lead to a greater push for ordaining women. If the ordination of women is desired by the Holy Spirit, having fewer priests, and thus fewer opportunities for the unique grace the Eucharist provides, is not likely to help the Spirit achieve anything.

Something else is at work, however, with these younger priests, and I wish the survey had dug more deeply into it. I find that younger clergy are more focused on the other worldly promises of the Gospel than on its implications for social justice. Some are stridently political but the majority view their role as apolitical and see the church as a refuge from a culture that they find abhorrent in its excessive vice and luxury. They aspire to a simpler life and there is nothing wrong with that.

One of the more striking findings of the survey is that 88% of priests ordained after 2000 identified Eucharistic devotion as a pastoral priority, compared to 66% of clergy ordained between 1980 and 1999, and 57% of those ordained before 1980. Is there something inherently "conservative" about Eucharistic adoration? Eucharistic adoration is not a proxy for otherworldiness but it might be an antidote for excessive worldliness. There is certainly a case to be made that the Catholic left collapsed the eschaton into a variety of social causes, some with a tenuous relationship to the revelation of God in Christ contained in the Gospel. The Gospel is many things but it is not a story of sexual liberation.