[Antoninus]

It is more complicated than that. The archdiocese of Los Angeles, for example, ordains a large number of men every year, despite Cardinal Mahoney.

Don't forget that LA is the largest Catholic diocese in the US. I'd love to see what the number of ordinands is per capita of Catholics. I'll bet it's much lower than Lincoln, Denver, or even Philadelphia.

[saradippity]

I was suspicious when I read that Los Angeles had many ordinations,so I checked and posted this last night on this thread.

From January 2002 when Mahoney ordained three priests through this last ordination in May of 2003,Los Angeles ordained no more than a total of 8 priests.

As I mentioned and Black Elk confirmed and raised the numbers,his diocese of Rockford ordained 11,just this spring and have 43 more in the seminaries.

I also noticed that Los Angeles lost about 100 priests over the last year. Some of this could be due to poor records keeping,a few might have been removed because of the scandal and many may have retired but I have reason to believe that several left the diocese to continue their priesthood in more orthodox dioceses.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I think the Archdiocese of LA ordained four priests last year.