[pbear8]

A truly holy bishop attracts many priestly vocations, perhaps that is better than more deacons.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Certainly your point about holy bishops attracting priestly vocations is very true. The number and quality of priestly vocations is probably the #1 indicator of a diocese's present and future spiritual health, and there a godly Bishop is the key man.

But deacons, too. We have great men serving. It seems to me that they are an indispensable link between the priests (who do tend sometimes to get cocooned up in their rectories) and the laity (out here in the Howling Secular Wilderness, Anxiety City and Mortgage World.)