Sunday, April 5, 2015

Priests: Save Role Models?

In a study made at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey in January to May 2014, in my Anthropology class (ATRO3005) we were given the task to interview  a person from a social group and make an ethnography. By making this interview we are supposed to generalize about the population of Priests in Puerto Rico and the United States. In my case I chose a Priest or the ministers of divine cult and and specially in the major cult act, the sacrifice. They are the ones the serve as intermediaries between men and God, divinity. I mean Priests, according to the christian law are in charge to carry out God's service.  During the interview I ask him about different topics such as: How did the idea of becoming a priest came to mind? About the priestly pathway, the CVII, and finally about the church crisis. 
Some of his answers were that the idea of being a priest came because he had a lot of influence his uncle and two brothers were in the same path, so he felt the necessity of becoming a priests to keep going on. When he told us about the priestly pathway he started at 12 years in the School of Priests in Spain. Also he talk about how he made two bachelors degrees and how he went in missions to different places, one of them being Colombia where he was in charge of teaching in a school and where he help construct streets and houses for the poor people. He also talk to me about the votes he had to made to becoming a priest. The three votes he had to profess were: obedience, poverty and chastity in order to become a priests. When I asked him if sometimes he doubt that that was the best decision he has made, he answered yes, sometimes he doubt because maybe he was a selfish person and wanted to have a kid in the past, but then remembered why made it and feels better, because he is serving God and following his rules. 
In conclusion, when I finish my investigation work, or ethnography, I could observe how the life of the priests is a one where they need to follow some strict rules. And a breach can be the end of their path as Priests. I could see how oaths are the base of everything. I mean, priests make the oath of chastity where it is prohibited to have sexual relations with anyone. We could see how that has affect so much the title of some priests, there had been found so much cases of pedophilia something that leads them to the exile of these people from Church, removing them the privilege of being Priests. Even though that is happening we can not generalize, these group of persons had started to fall and had some problems because of others, something that is not fair because it is not a collective thought, it is individual and what some made does not mean is going to be made by others. 




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