SOMEBODY finally got around to the fundamental question: "What's a Shortage?" and How Do We Define "Shortage."?
Now maybe we can get someplace on this question.
That was the best thing about this article, it did start to touch on framing the "priestly crisis" topic with facts and not feelings. It'd be nice to have a person with no agenda put some boundries around the topic and fill it in with facts - either way - so the debate would be honest instead of emotional.
It as just a happy throw-away that the number of letters were included. Most people who belong to one of the groups belong to all of them.