I need to redouble my prayers that the RCC has a revolution and returns to the Faith of our fathers. I suppose I’ve just assumed that it’s a lost cause due to the present Magisterium and Pope. Still, I pray against all hope that it is revived.
It is a mission field and should be treated as such.
Why should anyone become ordained in the Catholic church when the Popes statements on global warming prove, yes prove he doesn’t have faith in God?
The Bergoglio Effect. This papacy has been toxic to vocations.
Prayers for these Bishops. Something is wrong in their dioceses and they are not fixing it with a Director of Vocations.
The Catholic church used to rely on recruiting “second sons” of families, as it was an alternative employment for them since the first sons would inherit the entire estate.
These days, their best bet would be to recruit young boys from the ghettos of the world, offering them an education and employment with the idea of their becoming some level of clergy, with a small stipend to their family to help them rise from poverty while their son is training.
A sensible way of doing this would be to recreate all the tiers of clergy that used to exist, as only some of them would eventually achieve holy orders. The rest would get support roles, whose value is underappreciated.
France has been a radically agnostic country, almost since the day the blood dried on the guillotines.