How Are Vocations Doing?

[Lil Red]

h/t [url="http://www.patheos.com/community/deaconsbench/2011/04/25/how-are-vocations-doing-the-numbers-tell-the-story/"]the Deacon's Bench[/url]

[quote]Over at Catholic Vote, [url="http://www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=16440"]Thomas Peters[/url] is touting some interesting statistics about this year’s class of ordinands. The USCCB has been publishing a report on men being ordained as priests for the last 15 years.

A little Googling, though, reveals a little more.

This year, according to the USCCB, [url="http://www.usccb.org/vocations/"]480 men[/url] are to be ordained in the United States.

That’s a 10% jump from [url="http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2010/10-070.shtml"]last year[/url], when it was 440.

And it’s an even more sizable jump from 2008, there were [url="http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2008/08-067.shtml"]401[/url].

Things are looking up.[/quote]

[CatherineM]

That's the way it is here too. Just got finished building the new school, and the class rooms are packed. Guess they should have made them bigger.

[Amppax]

Cool! [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/clap2.gif[/img]

Edited April 25, 2011 by Amppax

[JenDeMaria]

Soooo happy.

[AudreyGrace]

Religious Life/Priesthood is the new Marriage, I guess. lol.

[Debra Little]

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h/t [url="http://www.patheos.com/community/deaconsbench/2011/04/25/how-are-vocations-doing-the-numbers-tell-the-story/"]the Deacon's Bench[/url]


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yes isn't it great? i've heard of some up and coming ordinations as well.