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75% of Seminarians in Charlotte Diocese from Parishes with Kneelers for Communion

On 9 November, LiturgyGuy.com reported that 75% of the seminarians in the Charlotte Diocese, North Carolina, had discerned their vocation in parishes that used kneelers for Communion.

Thirteen men have been ordained as priests in the past two years, and a further eleven are set to be ordained in 2026.

However, Bishop Michael Martin has ordered that kneelers should no longer be used as of Advent. Several large parishes have already announced that they will remain 'obedient' to the bishop.

Charlotte Diocese lists a total of 44 seminarians on its website — an impressive number for a diocese with a Catholic population of around half a million. Bishop Martin has inherited a somewhat functional diocese from Bishop Peter Jugis.

Again: Three out of every four men in the Charlotte seminary discerned their vocations in parishes that kneel for Communion.

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Malki Tzedek

The 'seed which fell upon good soil'.

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Father Karl A Claver

This jackass does not care about vocations or building up the Church.

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Orthocat

Very few of them [bishops] do. That's why good faithful Catholic MEN are turned away from seminaries in favor of the confused & effeminate. Then they close parishes or "empower" female "lay ecclesial ministers' as a "solution" guided by "the spirit' of the Council.

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Lisi Sterndorfer

Bishop Martin’s instructions to remove altar rails throughout his diocese cannot be evaluated in isolation. Rather, his move accompanies his recent liturgical crackdown on the TLM in the diocese.

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