Your comments related to homosexuality in the priesthood and the drop in vocations were off topic, inflammatory, and not directly related to the discussion at hand.

Douglas did provide some names, but I have removed them, since I would rather not encourage that type of discourse on this site.

Douglas,

I would rather not edit a comment, but felt compelled to in this case.

I stand by my assertion that religious sisters like Elizabeth Johnson drive potential vocations away. Like I said earlier, I have personally known a dozen plus young women who have joined various religious orders in the last 11 years (as long as I’ve been a Catholic). All of them look at sisters who won’t speak up about abortion and write off their orders as one’s they would never join (and didn’t, as a matter of fact).

If you don’t believe me about sisters who are wishy-washy about standing up for life driving away vocations, I would strongly suggest you go out and talk to young women who have recently joined a religious order. I’ve done this in the last month with a 19/20 year old woman at my parish who had joined a convent, and I highly recommend it. You will find that young women are looking for a brighter light than religious like Sr. Elizabeth Johnson are casting.

Young men and women are attracted to bold, faithful Catholicism. If they don’t see it, they are much less likely to be willing to make the tremendous sacrifices necessary to become a priest or enter religious life. It is no coincidence that only 10% of women religious being scrutinized by the Vatican are under the age of 60 and a majority of those women are in their 50s.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0903603.htm
Compare that to my sister-in-law’s order where the average age is in the mid-twenties.

Douglas Coombs