Are priests with it?

The recurring theme of Catholic orders doing youth outreach by insisting that, despite all appearances being to the contrary, they're really "hip" and "with it." See also: Jesus, the Original Hipster.

Catholic Digest - Dec 1965

     Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 08, 2016
     Category: Religion | 1960s





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Still no sex - oh... well... ah.... yea.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/08/16 at 11:03 AM
Priests are really "into you" if you know what I mean.......giggidy giggidy
Posted by billoney on 03/08/16 at 03:27 PM
Well ... Hip, Cool, In Tune.

This looks very much like what was handed out to us kids during the late 1960's at the Baptist church my family attended. The people working with the kids were alright, but older members probably would have benefited more from the same lessons taught to the youngsters.
Posted by KDP on 03/08/16 at 05:48 PM
One requirement is "Have demonstrated ability to live a celibate life." - Now, correct me if I'm wrong, fellow WUvians, but isn't that what 22 years of marriage proves?
Paulists were big in the 60s. But so were Peterists and Maryists.
Posted by Greg on 03/08/16 at 07:46 PM
I went along with my roommate to a "hip" service of his church (the ultraconservative Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod) while attending the University of Wisconsin in the late '60s. All it meant was part of the service would move outside, weather permitting, and the background music would be produced by a guitar (acoustic only, none of that electric music, thank you!).
Posted by Fritz G on 03/09/16 at 09:00 AM
Having been raised up into the bosom of the Lord withing the tenets of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church (the one and ONLY true faith - all others are doomed!) I don't think I've ever seen such revelry and find is suspicious that any of the true believers would stoop to such shenanigans.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/09/16 at 09:44 AM
@Expat47: I was also brought up and confirmed as a member of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, as were my brothers and sisters, seven of us in all. My father was a member and when he married my mother, she changed from Catholic to become a Lutheran. For some reason, the programming was unsuccessful in all of us children, maybe partly because my father was never much of a church goer, either. But even when I was very young, I thought it odd that I had somehow been "lucky" enough to be born into the only true religion on earth, when there were so many other flavors of religious belief out there.
Posted by Fritz G on 03/09/16 at 12:05 PM
Mom got into the church because my birthday didn't "fit" with the public school system's idea of when I could start school & the 3 REAL churches in town ran one of the best private schools in the state.

Personally, I had a 13 year pin at one point in time. My big break came when, after 3 years in the Navy the 1st time the REAL church decided to acknowledge that I was not around was to send me an envelope so I could send a donation for the new rectory.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/09/16 at 12:23 PM
I belonged to one of the poorer of the many Missouri Synod churches in our small Wisconsin city. They were always exhorting their members to increase their donations. Each Sunday's service program would list the total amount that was donated the previous Sunday, under the heading "The Measure of Our Love". At UW, I learned about so many other religions that I decided I didn't feel I wanted to be a card-carrying member of any of them. While stationed in Japan during my Army service, I became interested in the many Eastern religions and learned much about them. Today, nearly 50 years later, I do not belong to any established religion. But if I had to choose something, it would probably be some variety of Buddhism.
Posted by Fritz G on 03/09/16 at 12:49 PM
Good friend John goes to become a priest. Four years later he tells me what a good life it is and despite my sinful ways of picking up catholic girls in the plaid skirts on my motorcycle in front of the High School alcohol, loose women, sex out side of marriage and other actual or possible crimes againsed society, the middle class and being a former Unitarian I could find peace, love and salvation in the church and I would be saved from eternal damnation and life in hell along with my yet unborn children. Tw0 years later I saw him again and admitted some small reforms in my sinful lifestyle. He said he was no longer a priest. I asked why and he said he had met a woman, discovered sex and they got married. He said it was the best thing he ever did.
Posted by Gator Guy on 03/10/16 at 01:28 PM
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