Vocations Are Declining Under Pope Francis
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Pope Francis was elected in March 2013. Since then the numbers of seminarians has fallen more sharply. The total of seminarians fell from 118.251 in 2013 to 116.843 in 2015. According to infoCatólica this fall is especially striking in countries that follow Pope Francis' theological liberalism like Germany or Switzerland, while the vocations grow in some dioceses of the United States, which are marked by a fidelity to Catholic doctrine.
The only continent that is not affected by a vocational crisis is Africa, whose bishops have been especially skeptical toward Francis' liberal stances.
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