Empty seminaries, aging and dying clergy, disappearing parishes are all signs of the end of the era of the Church we have known so far, and at the same time they are signs of the coming of a new era: the Kingdom of God on earth with a completely different image of the Church. Jesus Christ to Luisa Piccarreta (Nov. 27, 1917):
And then, churches are few and many will be destroyed. Many times I do not find Priests to consecrate Me; other times they allow unworthy souls to receive Me, and worthy souls not to receive Me; other souls are unable to receive Me, therefore my Love finds Itself hindered. This is why I want to make the Sanctity of living in my Will. In It, I will no longer need Priests to be consecrated, nor churches, tabernacles or hosts. These souls will be everything altogether: Priests, churches, tabernacles and hosts. My Love will be more free. Anytime I want to consecrate Myself, I will be able to do it – in every moment, during the day, at night, in any place where they might be. Oh, how my Love will have Its complete outpouring!
Ah! my daughter, the present generation deserved to be destroyed completely; and if I will allow a little something to be left of it, it is to form these Suns of the Sanctity of living in my Will, who, through my example, will repay Me for all that other creatures, past, present and future, owed Me. Then will the earth give Me true glory, and my “FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA, on earth as it is in Heaven” will have its completion and fulfillment.

Our Archdiocesean seminary, which could accomodate 500 seminarians had 1940-62 close to 500 every year, with another 40-50 studying in Rome, or at Louvain, Belgium. It was a source of great pride in the Archdiocese, 1 huge building, cedicated in 1929 and in the Italian Renaissance style, and one, (the Theology building), dedicated in 1871 and in the "Victorian" style. Entrance classes were usually 80-100 per year, up until 1965, and ordinations anywhere between 28-55 per year from 1937-1962.
Today, te seminary is sold to main Line Health, a health care monopoly and will be turned into senior living apartments. The seminary has until 2024 to vacate. There was never any thought of selling/closing, until about 2015. Since the election of Francis, enrollment has dropped from about 190 (which is still very poor, but had been rising slowly under Benedict XVI), to about 119, of which only 46 are studying specifically for Philadelphia.
The four largest Orders of teaching sisters in the Archdiocese started to collapse around 1967, and today, there is not one parish school (out of maybe 200), with sisters of staff.
The residence of the CArdinal-Archbishop was sold, the Archdiosecean newspaper went out of business in 2014, and Mass attendance has declined from about 85%+ from the 1900's thru to 1970, to the present 12%. In the USA, Mass attendance is 17%, down from roungly 85% also in 1960-63.
I hope Francis' pontificate does not see another year. And his "Synod" I hope is a gigantic failure.
And I hope very many bishops again ignore these directives about the Latin Mass, and give Francis "the middle finger"...a gesture that in the Congo Francis maintains is so expressive and useful.

Being born in 1950 I was a school kid at the time of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. There was enormous expectation of a new awakening and blossoming of the Catholic Church as a result of that Council. Looking back now.....what a disaster......that has now culminated with Jorge Bergoglio, the rampant heretic, blasphemer & Pachamama worshipper, destroying the Catholic Church with calculated & methodical ease.....with almost no opposition!!!