Another "radical suggestion" for solving the priest shortage...

For those who think the only solutions for the current priest shortage are summed up in the "radical" suggestions of "that petition", here is yet another truly radical suggestion, this time from the Congregation for Clergy.

John Allen reports that

As part of a broad initiative to promote Eucharistic adoration, the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy is proposing that religious women “spiritually adopt priests” through prayer before the Eucharist, and, more generally, that Catholics from every corner of the world spend time before the Eucharist to pray for vocations to the priesthood in an era of priest shortages.

Concretely, the Congregation for Clergy is proposing that each diocese appoint a priest whose full-time job would be to promote Eucharistic adoration, and that special “Eucharistic shrines” be created that would resemble the well-known Marian shrines that dot the Catholic world.

Moreover, these proposals are made in "a letter to all the bishops of the world, along with an accompanying leaflet outlining the project".

In his letter, Hummes describes the aim of the new initiative as stimulating “a movement of prayer, placing 24-hour continuous Eucharistic adoration at the center, so that a prayer of adoration, thanksgiving, praise, petition and reparation will be raised to God, incessantly and from every corner of the earth, with the primary intention of awakening a sufficient number of holy vocations to the priestly state,” as well as promoting spiritual unity among those already ordained.

This is really getting "radical", as the younger generation might say.

(The Letter from the Congregation for the Clergy may be found here and an "explanatory note" here)