A Radical suggestion from the Black Pope for improving Vocations

Peregrinus, in the combox to an earlier post, opines that the authors of "that petition" included the call for discussion of women's ordination because they "wanted a petition with something difficult, something challenging, something radical."

Well, here's a REALLY radical suggestion, from none other than the retiring "black pope", Fr Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, Father General of the Jesuits.

I think about something Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts and a man who wasn’t himself particularly religious, once said: ‘I like my religion the same way I like my tea – boiling.” If the parish, ecclesial life, isn’t strong, fervent, and warm, it won’t generate vocations to the religious life or the priesthood.

For the whole interview, see John Allen's column here.