[OLD REGGIE]

Actually vocations are UP, not down, and fewer priests are leaving than in the decades after the 1960s. Those were ordained in the 1960s and 1970s were often poorly trained and educated. Many left. Today, things are much different. Some seminaries actually receive TOO MANY applications. “Particularly at a time when vocations to the priesthood are rare in the West, it is an extraordinary blessing to have so many vocations that we have been forced to construct two new seminary buildings.” http://www.latin-mass-society.org/fssp.htm

Whistling in the dark! Once again you mistake a localized occurrence and relate it to the universe.

Vocations are UP???

[Marysecretary]

Hmm, guess it depends on who you ask?

[Petronski]

The data you cite do not support the contention that God is leaving the Catholic Church high and dry.

However, those data do support the contention that vocations are up.

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“Whistling in the dark! Once again you mistake a localized occurrence and relate it to the universe.”

Nope. You are the one doing that. You link to AMERICAN STATISTICS. I was writing about the whole world!

If you too the time to actually read what you linked to you would have noticed this:

Graduate Seminarians (that’s future priests in case you didn’t know):

1990 = 51,603
1995 = 54,154
2000 = 55,968
2005 = 58,538

So, the number of seminarians world wide went up 7,000 in just 15 years. It’s still going up by the way. Again, these were the statistics YOU LINKED TO but apparently weren’t interested in actually reading. How embarrassing for you!

“Graduate-level seminarians 8,325 5,279 4,063 3,172 3,474 3,308 3,286”

Yeah, in America. I never said anything about this just being about America. And you INCREDIBLY wrote: “ Once again you mistake a localized occurrence and relate it to the universe.”

So, according to you, the whole world is “localized”? Again, how embarrassing for you.