Posted on 09/29/2005 9:01:09 AM PDT by marshmallow
The nuymbers game is what got the bishops in trouble thirty years ago. Fact is that in 1960 there probably more priests than were needed, or at least needed in the places they were. After so many seminarians left in the late '60s and early '70s, along with many priests, the bishops panicked and began to admit men who earlier would not have made the cut.
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