Because the priest shortage is NOT strictly an American problem. I was listening to an interview with a priest somewhere in central/south america (I forget where exactly) and he was talking about how it was a terrible problem that his parishioners only got to see him ONCE per year. And that a lot of people in the area were converting to evangelical Christianity.
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North America has the best priest to parishioner ratio in the world: 1:1229 compared with South America at 1:7094.
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http://www.futurechurch.org/fpm/bishops.htm
If you can't see the relevance, then we can just drop it.
Anyway, I don't know if letting women become priests or changing the policy on contraception would help or hurt the Chruch, but the great part is, not being Catholic, this issue is purely academic to me, and I don't have to give a fuck. :D
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