In Belgium, Bishop Johan Bonny wants to ordain married men, explaining that the number of single men pursuing the priesthood “has fallen to almost zero.”

In Luxembourg, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich wants to discuss the ordination of women, because “I cannot imagine in the long run how a Church can survive when half of God’s people suffer because they have no access to consecrated ministry.”

How should the Vatican respond to this sort of theological ferment? It’s obvious; crack down on the Traditional Latin Mass!

But seriously, why are there no Belgian men interested in the priesthood? Perhaps more important, why does a cardinal of the Catholic Church think that any Catholic who is not a priest must perforce be suffering? I don’t suffer because I’m a layman. I do sometimes suffer because of the clergy, however. Like right now.