[american colleen]

Thank you for the info.

What has become of Fr. Gould? I used to see him on EWTN but he hasn't been around lately. He's a straight shooter and I appreciated his candor and simplicity.

All the wailing and gnashing of teeth regarding declining vocations is empty until someone with influence does a diocese to diocese study and puts out the FACT that orthodox bishops produce many more vocations than do unorthodox ones. Your illustration of Arlington is the perfect example - and there are other dioceses that mirror the same thing.

[Antoninus]

All the wailing and gnashing of teeth regarding declining vocations is empty until someone with influence does a diocese to diocese study and puts out the FACT that orthodox bishops produce many more vocations than do unorthodox ones.

Been done:

Orthodox Dioceses Produce Five Times the Vocations as Progressive Ones

Do you really think that most of the bishops in the USCCB don't know this? Of course they do. "By their fruits, shall ye know them."