I've heard that too. But, in order to replace the priests who are retiring or dying off, every diocese would have to ordain numbers in double digits.
This Queen Mary may turn around, but it will take several years.
The Church has got to come to terms with priestless parishes, and lay run parishes, for several decades to come.
1. We do not need married clergy although exceptions can and will be made particularly for a previously married clergyman of another faith who converts, is ordained and then may not marry again if his spouse dies.
2. We need absolutely no practicing homosexuals in the priesthood.
3. We need, with the exceptions noted in #1, no heterosexually active priests although the desire for heterosexual sexuality is perfectly normal and the desire for homosexual activity is ALWAYS intrinsically disordered, as the Church teaches.
4. If the pope were to allow a general permission for priests to marry, it could NEVER extend to homosexual priests being allowed "same sex 'marriage'" which is, again, ALWAYS intrinsically disordered.
5. I bet your diocesan vocation situation in Fort Worth will soon improve. Granted that it will take a while to turn the Queen Mary around as you put it. I may be wrong but your new bishop apparently had an orthodox reputation as a pastor in Southern Illinois. We shall see.
6. Several recent appointments in Texas suggest that Texas finally has the Vatican's attention.
7. Our little diocese of Rockford still has 48 seminarians with 11 due for ordination next May. Many are being prepared in the seminaries (diocesan and FSSP) in Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz's Lincoln, Nebraska diocese. No one accuses Bishop Doran of being a Kumbaya in any way.
8. If we have priestless parishes it will be a temporary temporal punishment for tolerating liberal AmChurch.
9. I have heard claims that fully half of the priests of the New Orleans Archdiocese are actually missing and unaccounted for. That is about as bad as it gets in the US.
10. What can a "lay run" parish or "priestless" parish do? Concentrate on social gospel stuff? How sad and fortunately, how very temporary. Maybe it is better to shutter such churches and yolk their parishioners pro tempore with parishes having priests.
11. Introduce third world firebrand priests from Asia, Africa and Latin America to handle the temporary priest shortage caused by liberal AmChurch.
All that having been said, I must sheepishly admit that you are missed when you are posting so rarely. Welcome back!