More new (Irish) bishops than priests to be ordained this year amid vocations crisis

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Why don’t they interview the new priests to see what drew them to the priesthood and get their ideas about how to recruit more priests?

Fr. Costello must be very brave or be thinking outside the box to want to be a priest at this time.
 
In the States here, we have African priests, older second-career priests, and Latino priests in addition to the standard young US-born priests.
It seems like there are a lot of people from India now living in Ireland, it’s reasonable that you get priests from there.

Hopefully you will also get some more young Irish-born priests going forward. I feel it has been picking up a little bit here the last few years. About 10 years ago there were fewer.
 
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Hopefully you will also get some more young Irish-born priests going forward. I feel it has been picking up a little bit here the last few years. About 10 years ago there were fewer.
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The situation in Ireland is calamitous as the Church stands at present . I recently read that there are no transitional deacons in the forthcoming Maynooth academic year so there will be no priests ordained from there in 2021 and that there is only one candidate for the diaconate in 2021 and if he perseveres, he will be the only priest in 2022. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this information, but its days as a seminary must be in doubt, This press report of 2016 blew the lid off the place and I suspect many young men were frightened off studying there.

 
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Are there any good, well-run and more traditional seminaries in Ireland?
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I do not think so, though I may be shown to be wrong. Certainly the ICKSP send all their men to Gricigliano near Florence (and indeed ICKSP Limerick is sending at least one Irishman this year) and now having established an Apostolate in Belfast, any candidates from that will head that way also. I don`t know enough about FSSP SSPX or The Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri presence in the country.
 
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