Bishop Vicente Jimenez of Santander, Spain recently said he is confident that abolishing celibacy is not the answer to overcoming the lack of vocations to the priesthood.
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In an interview with the newspaper Montanes, Bishop Jimenez acknowledged that the lack of vocations in his diocese is “troubling” but said he does not believe the solution is to make things easier for priests. “A vocation should be demanding and undiluted,” he said. “There are some voices that say that if we do away with celibacy and allow priests to marry there would be more. I don’t believe it.”
He noted that in protestant communities “celibacy does not exist and they have less vocations than Catholics.
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