{"id":4330,"date":"2006-11-30T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T09:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/a-quieter-story.html"},"modified":"2006-11-30T09:39:03","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T09:39:03","slug":"a-quieter-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/a-quieter-story.html","title":{"rendered":"A quieter story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more interesting Catholic stories over the next couple of weeks involves ordinations.<\/p>\n<p>On December 10, many eyes will be on Archbishop Milingo as (he claims)&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=76818\">he ordains three married men to the priesthood at the end of a conference on marriage and the priesthood in <span style=\"color: #000000\">Parsippany, New Jersey<\/span>. <\/a>The link takes you to a press release from Milingo&#8217;s organization. These ordinations will, of course, be valid. Illicit, but valid, because Milingo is, well, an Archbishop. <\/p>\n<p>But will any journalists catch another story that would provide some interesing compare and contrast context to Milingo&#8217;s actions?<\/p>\n<p>For there will be other married men ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in December, but not by Milingo, and not illicitly. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gkupsidedown.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/married-priests.html\">Dwight Longenecker, former Anglican priest and married father of four, was ordained to the Roman Catholic diaconate yesterday<\/a> for the Diocese of Charleston and will be ordained to the priesthood on 12\/14 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmarysgvl.org\/\">at St. Mary&#8217;s in Greenville, South Carolina.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Sunday, December 3rd, <a href=\"http:\/\/catholica.pontifications.net\/?p=2037\">married former Anglican priest and blogger Al Kimel will be ordained <\/a>to the Roman Catholic priesthood <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcan.org\/index.cfm\">for the Archdiocese of Newark.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any conversation about marriage and the RC priesthood prompted by Milingo has to take the Pastoral Provision into account, and in a serious way. For the interesting thing that will set the uninformed&#8217;s heads spinning is that, of course, neither Bishop Baker nor Archbishop Myers are wild-eyed liberals. St. Mary&#8217;s in Greenville is a vibrant parish, with a strong evangelistic mission, in which the Mass is celebrated in <a href=\"http:\/\/stmarysgvl.org\/sacraments\/mass-schedule\">in a very traditional manner.<\/a> Both Dwight and Al are vigorously orthodox, intellectual, and pastoral men &#8211; if you don&#8217;t know about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwightlongenecker.com\/\">Dwight&#8217;s books &#8211; check them out (my husband has worked on a couple of them as editor)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncregister.com\/site\/article\/1482\/\">Dwight writes in the NCR(egister) on his ordination.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but think that the juxtaposition of these December ordinations poses fascinating questions and challenges from several different directions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more interesting Catholic stories over the next couple of weeks involves ordinations. 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The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel. Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. 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