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To: NYer

Somehow, I don’t think this is going to do much to attract men into the priesthood.


45 posted on 01/12/2008 11:06:52 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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Somehow, I don’t think this is going to do much to attract men into the priesthood.

That depends on the bishop and diocese. In St. Louis, there are now 111 seminarians studying for the priesthood and the bishop is in the process of doubling the size of the seminary. Here in Albany (and most of the other ultra-liberal run dioceses), the ordination rate is very low. Young men are attracted to serving our Lord as pastors (as is the case in STL), not as Sacramental Ministers which follows the liberal design.

46 posted on 01/12/2008 12:30:56 PM PST by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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