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To: Alex Murphy
An ability seemingly impossible for Catholic World News. Can't have any "anti-Catholic" statistics!

Yet they included the numbers for 1965 and subsequent years, through to the present, in the article. Although percentages were not given, it's clear from the numbers provided that there was a drastic fall-off in vocations through the last 30-40 years.

They were under no obligation to provide the numbers for previous years. They could have simply supplied this year's figure together with a puff piece about everything being wonderful but they didn't.

They conveniently placed this year's figure in the context of previous years' so that you could then convert it into a percentage, do a victory dance and accuse of them of covering up "anti-Catholic statistics".

25 posted on 04/08/2015 8:15:48 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow; Alex Murphy

Victory dance?

And this; "accuse them of covering up "anti-Catholic statistics"?

40% overall decline, despite a recent uptick (595 people --- out of an overall population of more than 320 million people? how many of the wanna-be, hoping to be "priests" are Mexican immigrants?) -- and the knives came out as if he was one of the authors of Vatican II...

There was no dancing, and there was no open "accusing of covering up". But there was a simple pointing out that a long term trend was downwards.

For doing that, noting that aspect of things, he was set upon personally and forthwith by FRomans.

41 posted on 04/09/2015 8:11:23 AM PDT by BlueDragon (the weather is always goldilocks perfect, on freeper island)
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