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To: Hieronymus

some mysteries are fine some are ok but... it is a crying shame to visit a college founded by sisters and learn that they only have 3 or 4 left, all I think over 80, and (a couple years ago when I checked there) their residences or retirement funds were in trouble

I would think that SOME young folks would want to become priests brothers or nuns

anyways, no need to explain I hear a lot about this all the time and of course also read the articles, reports....

thanks for your concern, its appreciated!
Merry Christmas,
fhc


18 posted on 12/11/2018 5:10:33 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE) Is)
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To: faithhopecharity

Some do. I ‘ve been teaching for nearly 20 years and have about a half-dozen former students who are priests and another 10 or so in seminary and another 10 or so in convents.

Most of the orders have been walking dead for a good 35 years


25 posted on 12/11/2018 5:36:56 PM PST by Hieronymus ((It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: faithhopecharity

Likewise for the priests. The number ordained have been two or three for several years, but in a couple of years we will be back up to six or seven ordinands.


31 posted on 12/11/2018 6:06:42 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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