The typical post-Vatican II priest

The typical post-Vatican II priest

I know some may think my comments on this article to be churlish and disrespectful, but I have a point to make and so be it. The Boston Globe profiles an elderly, sickly priest who is retiring as his parish is closed by the Boston Archdiocese. To set the background, St. George Lithuanian parish in Norwood is closing. The other parishes in Norwood are very large, very lively parishes, and when I mean large, I mean very large. St. Catherine’s has three or four priests assigned to it, which is extremely unusual these days. On the other hand, St. George is small and getting smaller with fewer and fewer people who even speak Lithuanian. And Father William Wolkovich has been there for 21 years.

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