Tag: Recruitment
Ireland’s sons turn their backs on the priesthood
Jerome Taylor, Religious Affairs Correspondent August 27, 2010.
Print: The Independent, UK
The number of priestly ordinations in Ireland has dipped below England and Wales for the first time in living memory, new figures reveal.
The recruitment crisis is a clear indication of how low the church has sunk in a country that once used to export Catholic missionaries to all corners of the globe and often provided Britain with a significant proportion of its priests.
