Priestly vocations plummet in Ireland [CWN]

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Only 16 men are entering the seminary in Ireland this year-- down from 39 in 2009, and over 150 during the average year in the 1980s. Ireland currently has 99 seminarians, while England …

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Ireland currently has 99 seminarians, while England and Wales have 150.
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Actually that’s pretty much in proportion to the sizes of their Catholic populations, 3.7 million and 5.2 million respectively.
 
Is anyone surprised?

The only thing I´m surprised at is that we have 99 seminarians.
 
I don’t think that there’s a difference in Ireland between standard and “traditional” seminaries.

There used to be far more seminarians in Ireland than in the UK.
 
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Actually that’s pretty much in proportion to the sizes of their Catholic populations, 3.7 million and 5.2 million respectively.
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Ireland used to be overflowing with priestly vocations, which they regularly exported as ordained priests to the rest of the world.

No longer.
 
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