Thursday, November 1
Priest Shortage? What Priest Shortage?
In Honduras, the national seminary had an enrollment of 170 in 2007, an all-time high for a country where the total number of priests is slightly more than 400. Twenty years ago, there were fewer than 40 candidates. Bolivia saw the most remarkable increase; in 1972, the entire country had 49 seminarians, while in 2001 the number was 714, representing growth of 1,357 percent. Overall, seminarians in Latin America have increased 440 percent in the last two decades, according to Cleary.
From John Allen's recent piece on the state of the Church in South America.
From John Allen's recent piece on the state of the Church in South America.
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