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To: marshmallow

Few vocations for diocesan priests but plenty for religious orders.


3 posted on 11/28/2016 6:07:05 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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To: 353FMG

For a few religious orders. The majority of houses in the majority of orders in the west could easily be mistaken for old age homes.


5 posted on 11/28/2016 6:10:55 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: 353FMG

The stricter more traditional orders have more vocations. That is magnified in the convents. The traditional orders that wear full habit and concentrate on prayer are young orders. The ones that “modernized” including abjuring the habit are all begging for alms to support their aged and retired members. There are no young nuns in them.


9 posted on 11/28/2016 6:20:53 PM PST by arthurus
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To: 353FMG

Actually vocations have been rising since the crazy modernism of post VII got tamped down and the dancing girls disappeared from liturgies.


10 posted on 11/28/2016 6:22:07 PM PST by arthurus
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