[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.

[american colleen]

The clock is ticking.

That's fine, nothing you can do about that. Shouldn't really be a problem with approx. 30% of Catholics attending Mass once a week. Like I said, I would rather drive for an hour and have an orthodox priest say Mass even if I have to stand the whole time in the back of the Church then have 20 local progressive or apathetic priests who, in trying to be "relevant" are prisoners of the latest spiritual psycobabble or the newest fads.

[american colleen]

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

Uh, no.

According to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, 122 high school seminaries existed in the United States in 1967. Thirty-six were operated by dioceses and 86 by religious communities.