[american colleen]

When either side really wants to turn up the heat,they use the figures from the early years,which include all the little kids in minor seminary.For more recent years,since they no longer have minor seminaries,quite understandably,those boys,who previously beefed up the statistics,are not there.But those contrived figures serve both of you well with respect to alarming your fellow Catholics.

Thanks! I never even thought of the numbers of kids in minor seminaries being added into the numbers. How dishonest! For crying out loud, my dad and most of the boys he grew up with were in minor seminary back in the 50s. They were great schools.

Call me stupid, but I trust in God to provide for our needs. Did you know the Legionaires have 500 men in seminary right now?

[sinkspur]

I never even thought of the numbers of kids in minor seminaries being added into the numbers.

LOL! There were, maybe, 12 minor seminaries in the United States?

The average age of priests will be 60 in 2005!

The clock is ticking.