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Originally Posted by Romeo Rovagnati
Wasn't President Obama's mother Irish?
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OCD playing up with respect to Ireland's contribution to the false priesthood?
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Originally Posted by Tim O'Donnell (9th October 2019*)
The number of priests in Ireland has fallen precipitously since 1959, according to The Vanishing Catholic Priest, a study conducted by sociologist Brian Conway of National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Conway notes there were a few, brief upticks in the years following Pope John Paul II’s visit to the country in 1979 . . . last year * only five men began training for the priesthood at Ireland’s main seminary, St Patrick’s College in Maynooth. It does not bode well for the future of the profession – especially considering that the average age for an Irish priest is hovering around 70. But Irish leadership is not giving up hope of rekindling the ailing profession as Church leaders begin to actively recruit priests from abroad.
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But perhaps you were contemplating an application for Irish employment yourself. A difficult choice, I agree, Rome or Dublin? Arm waving and unintelligible gabbling or unintelligible gabbling and falling over? Fortunately it's not a choice I'll ever be faced with.