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The cover story examines "The Last Counterculture": the Catholic priesthood.
Then, yesterday, you joshed about the Catholic all-male priesthood as the ultimate affirmative action program (as if men, of all people, had been the victim of discrimination for which the monopoly on ordination was a recompense!)
All males from twelve years of age are eligible to hold the priesthood ant it is this semi-universal priesthood that governs the church (with participation by women in some administrative roles, but outside the context of the priesthood itself) and conducts its rituals.
The extent to which the expression has found favor was brought home a few weeks ago when Archbishop Harry Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis traveled to Rome to ordain a Minnesota-bound candidate for the priesthood.
It attributes the plummet in the number of men entering the priesthood to pedophilia scandals, disillusionment with celibacy, and "the increasingly secular nature of American life."