Sentences with phrase «growing number of priests»
As for all those African vocations, well, «the growing number of priests is a result not only of missionary power but also a result of the fact that the priesthood is one of the few possibilities for social security on the dark continent.»
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Since 1960 the Catholic population has grown from 40 to 60 million, but the number of priests and women religious has declined to 45,000 and 90,000 respectively as a result of resignations, retirements and thinning ranks of new recruits.
However, it would be nice, being we can receive blessings over tv and airwaves if something could be done to address the GROWING issue of the dwindling number of available priests to confess shutins particularly in rural areas.
The mayor's promotion of the schools has led a growing number of those who know the actual facts to compare Rahm Emanuel's cover ups for Noble Street with the Catholic archbishops cover ups of the more serious abuses by priests.