Baptisms, Marriages, and Seminarians Disappeared – Only Bishops Increase
- After twelve years of Francis' pontificate, the Vatican reports are self-congratulatory, but the Church's decadence is evident.
- The seminaries are empty, and in Argentina there is a seminary that is one hundred years old, in which not a single seminarian has entered this year.
- Marriage no longer exists, now there are only "couples."
- The birth rate in Argentina has decreased: in 2023, with 460,902 births, the lowest number in the last 50 years was registered.
- There are few baptisms.
- There is no Christian culture left.
- The public presence of the Church is non-existent and media activists only mention the Church when they can quote political judgments against the current government.
- There are no Catholic thinkers who stand out, as, for example, Carlos Sacheri. He was murdered in 1974, as he was leaving Mass, in San Isidro, in front of his wife and seven children, by terrorists of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP).
- The Statistical Yearbook of the Church has just been published. It is revealed in it that the global number of bishops has increased: from 5353 in 2022 to 5430 in 2023.
- At the same time, the number of priests has decreased, and even worse, the number of seminarians.
- There are Argentine dioceses where the number of bishops exceeds or is equal to the number of seminarians.
- Sixty years after Vatican II, it is time to face reality. A 'Church on the move,' in search of those who do not know Christ, must not be a 'Church on the run' from her own nature and mission.
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