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Title: Sorry, this is not the Answer:
Review: I spent 9 years in a monastary in the 60s, and left in 1969. Since then I have remained a Catholic and have read much on the subject of Church, and Church History, and on the present-day crises. Sorry, but Michael Rose did not hit on the right answer for a lack of vocations. He started with a conclusion and worked backwards. His conclusion is that orthodox (conservative) vocations are being turned away, and that the liberal institution is the one turning them away, and he uses some very flimsy criteria to prove it. One only has to look at the dioceses he cites as being low in vocations versus the ones that have higher perentage rates, and one can see that one of the critical variables is urban versus city, instead of orthodox versus liberal. This was just not good journalism. Sorry, the problem goes much deeper than that.
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