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U.S. News & World Report has a good piece on the priest shortage that’s worth reading. It also has the picture above, which carries this caption: A priest blesses a boy as he prepares to receive communion during the Papal mass in DC. Um. Not quite.

One of the stops Pope Benedict will be making this week is at the seminary for the Archdiocese of New York. And the New York Times has a compelling look at how vocations are doing there (hint: not great) and the ongoing effort to recruit more young men: The banners hanging in the main corridor…

It’s no secret the Church is looking for a few good men. And it’s found some novel ways to recruit them. From the Kansas City Star: On the door of his room at Conception Seminary College in northwest Missouri, Adam Haake has a poster that reminds him of the other local men walking the same…

That’s the sentiment expressed by a vocations director in Florida — and what led him to that conclusion is described in this article from Florida Catholic, describing a unique tour of a nearby seminary: Christina Fischer apologized to her tour guide for asking so many questions — and then, she asked another one. “I heard…
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