More than thirty years ago, on a riverboat to Hanoi, I was traveling with a group of seminary candidates and a non-Catholic friend. I still remember vividly what he told us: “When you become priests, ...
France is down to about 24,000 priests nationwide from 42,000 in 1975, and numbers of churchgoers have plummeted. A study by Lyon's auxiliary bishop found that more than half of the 161 priests who ...