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The reduced number of active diocesan clergy has forced us to take unprecedented measures to stop parishes from closing,” Pope Benedict XVI explained in a decree issued Saturday by the Vatican. “That is why, for the first time in two millennia, we’re allowing pretty much anyone who is willing to show up at 9 a.m. and work for slightly more than minimum wage to act as a Vessel of Christ.
Priest Shortage Forces Vatican To Hire Temps To Deliver Sacred Rites | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source via ascendingcoherence who notes the irony in the last sentence given the number of women friends we have with Capital-D divinity chops.
