Francis Desaster: Serious Drop in Vocations Since 2013
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Father Peter Stravinskas writes on CatholicWorldReport.com (May 5) that in 2013, there were 150 seminarians, this year 78. From 2017 to 2022, the number of new candidates for the priesthood has fallen from 24 to 6.
Stravinskas notes that the decline began in 2013, the year when Francis was elected, and that even the Vatican's own statistics has acknowledge that the number of seminarians worldwide has declined every year since 2013.
Francis doesn't like priests, seminarians, sisters and nuns, and he has referred to seminarians as "little monsters", Stravinskas notes.
His conclusion, “Ask any bishop or vocation director, off record, about the situation in their dioceses, you will get the same answer across the board: The ‘Francis effect’!”
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