[Clemenza]

Here's how it goes:

Once upon a time (our setting could be Italy in 1850 or Mexico in 1950), people lived in large families that worked the farms they owned or as migratory labor for others. Young men who wanted to escape this lifestyle and receive some education often joined the preisthood. There was also prestige for the celrgy in a largely rural peasent society.

As more people in the underdeveloped world moved to the cities, however, there were more opportunites and their outlook on life changed. The old "peasent cultures" have essentially died or are in the process of dying in Latin America, just as they are in Europe.

The Vatican better start setting up more seminaries in Africa if they want more priests.

[JNB]

Actually Latin America has never been a large source of vocations, and the Bishops in Latin America depended on Priests from Europe, but in the last 15 years, the number of seminarians in Latin America has gone up dramatically.

As for vocations in the devloped world, the traditional religous orders have to turn men away for lack of space.

[annyokie]

We had a number of African Priests at my parish in Pittsburgh.

[Aquinasfan]

As more people in the underdeveloped world moved to the cities, however, there were more opportunites and their outlook on life changed.

That was not the situation in this country up until the mid-1960s, when vocations and religious orders flourished.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

The Vatican better start setting up more seminaries in Africa if they want more priests.>>

No, the Vatican had better start firing the feminazi crazed nuns and the queer-eyes-for-the-straight-guys priests they have as "gatekeepers" specifically to ethnically cleanse believers from seminaries.