Coincidence or Real Francis Effect? The Collapse of Vocations in Buenos Aires and All Argentina..

Rorate Caeli ^ | 3/8/16

[marshmallow]

Update: The website of the Organizacion de los Seminarios de la Argentina has comprehensive statistics for major and minor seminarians in the country from 1997 to the present (ESTADÍSTICAS COMPARADAS). The rapid and unrelenting collapse of vocations is unmistakable: from 1,501 major seminarians in 1999 to 916 in 2012, 875 in 2013 and 827 in 2014; and from 624 minor seminarians in 1997 to only 59 in 2012 (the last year for which there are statistics for minor seminarians).

The following statistics come from the article SACERDOCIO: LA CRISIS DE VOCACIONES IMPACTA EN LA IGLESIA published by the Argentinian news website Tres Lineas on Sunday:

Seminarians studying in Argentina:

1999: 1,501
2014: 827

Seminarians in the Metropolitan Seminary of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires:

1980's (no precise year given): 200
2016: 80

The seminary received 15 new entrants this year.

In 2016, Buenos Aires -- which has more than 3 million inhabitants -- will see only three of its seminarians ordained to the priesthood.

[marshmallow]

In 2016, Buenos Aires -- which has more than 3 million inhabitants -- will see only three of its seminarians ordained to the priesthood.

Some guy commented at the bottom of the Tres Lineas article..."why become a priest when Francis says that conversion to the faith is not necessary for salvation".

Good point.

[heterosupremacist]

Research indicates that conservative Bishops fill seminaries in the USA - progressive Bishops do not.

[miele man]

Is that then Cardinal Bergoglio in the cartoon character chasuble? If so, I find it incredible. Is is any wonder vocations dropped so far.

[Larry Lucido]

What’s a minor seminarian? Is that where you get sent if you don’t make the majors?

[marshmallow]

LOL........a minor seminary is essentially a high school for teenage boys who have expressed an interest in becoming priests.

Very common half a century or more ago. Much less so today.

[Larry Lucido]

Thanks :)

[ebb tide]

Coincidence or the real Francis effect?

Easy question: Francis effect.

Bergoglio taught literature and psychology at Immaculate Conception College in Santa Fé in 1964 and 1965, and also taught the same subjects at the Colegio del Salvatore in Buenos Aires in 1966. He studied theology and received a degree from the Colegio of San José from 1967 to 1970, and finished his doctoral thesis in theology in Freiburg, Germany in 1986.

He later returned to his alma mater, the Colegio of San José, where he served as rector (1980-86) as well as a professor of theology.

[T-Bone Texan]

Pope Che has spoken. All bow to the Red Pope!

He’s a mouthpiece for the global elites, BTW.