03-14-2023, 06:38 AM
Irish Diocese: No Priest for a Decade, No Seminarians
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gloria.tv | March 14, 2023
Achonry Bishop Paul Dempsey, 51, told his diocese “to let go of some of the familiar ways we have experienced parish life in the past.”
“The crisis has become very real,” he wrote in his Lenten letter. The last priestly ordination in the diocese was 2013. "We currently have no student studying for the priesthood.”
According to Dempsey, in ten years, at best, there will be 12 priests serving in the 23 parishes of the diocese. He writes that “we have never been here before.”
Only recently, Francis described Vatican II as a "visit of God to his Church" to make the Church "more and more alive" (sic).
See more here: Irish pastoral letter calls for “creative” solution to priest shortage