Priestly vocations starting to ascend

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This is rather like declaring California's drought to be over when an eighth of an inch of rain falls
one day.

A 3 percent increase over 7 years, following a 55 percent decline? That is supposed to be
significant?

To say nothing of the number of priests who have left ministry in order to marry.

The solution is obvious: you could DOUBLE the number of ordinations (perhaps more
than that, given the pent-up demand) by ordaining women.

Just as significant, perhaps, would be the number of available priests if the bishops
would simply invite married priests to be reinstated into ministry, if they would ordain
married 'permanent deacons' and other married men to the priesthood.

They have the resources, but they refuse to use them.

Instead, they choose to maintain the priesthood as a "bachelors' club," something
which every other denomination (and a number of other Catholic Churches) gave up
on centuries ago.

The exercise of saying "see, it's coming back" while pointing to a less than one
half of one percent annualized increase in ordinations is nothing more than just that---
a PR exercise.