{"id":961,"date":"2008-12-28T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/12\/cia-and-fbi.html"},"modified":"2008-12-28T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T15:46:08","slug":"cia-and-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/12\/cia-and-fbi.html","title":{"rendered":"CIA and FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laurie Goodstein has the beginnings of what looks to be a very good series on foreign-born priests serving in the US. <\/a><\/p>\n

So Father Venters, lean and leathery as the Marlboro man \u2014 a cigarette in one hand and a cellphone with a ring tone like a church bell in the other \u2014 spends most of his days recruiting priests from overseas to serve in the small towns, rolling hills and farmland that make up the Roman Catholic Diocese of Owensboro.
\nHe sorts through e-mail and letters from foreign priests soliciting jobs in America, many written in formal, stilted English. He is looking, he said, for something that shouts: \u201cThis priest is just meant for Kentucky!\u201d
\n\u201cIf we didn\u2019t get international priests,\u201d he said, \u201csome of our guys would have had five parishes. If one of our guys were to leave, or God forbid have a heart attack and die, we didn\u2019t have anyone to fill in.\u201d
\nIn the last six years, he has brought 12 priests from Africa, Asia and Latin America who are serving in this diocese covering the western third of Kentucky, where a vast majority of residents are white. His experiences offer a close look at the church\u2019s drive to import foreign priests to compensate for a dearth of Americans, and the ways in which this trend is reshaping the Roman Catholic experience in America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first piece is a good start, touching on several important issues. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the series progresses.
\n(The post title? Someone once told me that in Florida, priests could be broken into two groups: Conceived In America and Foreign Born Irish.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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