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May 22, 2005
Shrinking diocesan priesthood + shrinking religious order = parish consolidation
The diocese of Rochester will ordain a priest this year! A priest was ordained last year! The parochial vicar of my parish was ordained in 2002! The last time I looked there were about 200 priests in the diocese. This is not a formula for replacement.
Meanwhile, there's the St. Anthony of Padua province of the Franciscans (OFM conv), who have announced that after 80 years they are pulling out of St. Hyacinth's, Auburn, NY.
Meanwhile, I read on one of the CARA pages I was glancing at today that Atlanta expects to ordain 19 this year.
A commenter points out that Syracuse will ordain 3 this year, and Buffalo (horrible frames based website - no link allowed) will also ordain 3. So it's not that there are NO vocations in Upstate New York -- only that they're fewer and further between than we'd like.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 22, 2005 1:01 PM