Survey: 30% of German Catholics could see themselves leaving the Church “soon.”
Die Tagespost and Katholisch.de
This is the church the hierarchy of which – under Francis – has such a disproportionate influence on the Church worldwide.
Update of the Update:
Only 57 diocesan priests to be ordained this year in Germany – the second lowest number in history. The record low was 2019 with 55 ordinations. For a country with some 27 million Catholics (on paper at least) that is disastrous. For every newly ordained priest this year there are likely eleven losses for one reason or another. Not surprisingly, the first big drop in ordinations occurred between 1962 (557) and 1970 (303).
Obviously this trend is not sustainable. The first reaction of the Central Committee of the Catholic Laity is to renew the call for married priests and women priests. In other words, business as usual in Catholic Germany.
Footnote: the average number of priests ordained each year in the New York Archdiocese in relation to the Catholic population is roughly the same as in the admittedly catastrophic situation of Germany.
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