[Nihil Obstat]

Father Lawrence Mierenfeld, pastor of Incarnation Catholic Church in Centerville, Ohio, a 3,800-family parish, said... "But eventually people are going to have to realize that they're going to have to drive more than five minutes to Mass, and that Mass is not going to be offered every hour on the hour."

Last week at a daily mass we had a young priest from Nigeria visiting. He was telling us that for Sunday mass people there will walk 8 or 10 hours one way just to make it to mass on Sunday.

When he was a child and decided to go to seminary, he and a neighbor also in the seminary had to wake up very early and run for more than hour to make it to daily mass in time to start the day at the seminary. He told us that seminary is overcrowded with hundreds of seminarians, but that they are very selective about who gets ordained, maybe 90% are turned away.

We are very spoiled. If you want more priests, pray for holy vocations. Have children, be open to life and God's call.

[ecomcon]

We are very spoiled. If you want more priests, pray for holy vocations. Have children, be open to life and God's call.

True. People don't change unless they have to.

[GCC Catholic]

You have overlooked one more thing: If you know a young man who you think could be a good priest, tell him so. It might be all that he needs in order to begin to listen for God's call. It's entirely possible that he may never become a priest, but on the other hand it's also entirely possible that he just needs that little bit of encouragement.