Tuesday, June 18, 2024

"In large part, priests are the only ones that have recognized the priest shortage. And he said that the laity have not recognized the priest shortage." - Fr. Daniele of Catholic Buzz Podcast paraphrasing Fr. Mike Schmidt @ 20:20

 


“I think it was Fr. Mike Schmidt who said it.  In large part, priests are the only ones that have recognized the priest shortage.  And he said that, for large part, the laity have not recognized the priest shortage.  …  The ‘service’ that people receive from their parish has not changed in the last, let’s say, 20 or 30 years…they still have Sunday Mass time, daily Mass, Confession times, meet with a priest when they want, etc., …  maybe the service has not changed drastically, but in same time frame, the number of priests has sharply reduced. So priests recognized the shortage moreso than anyone else because now they are doing the job of what used to be 2, 3 and sometimes 4 priests.  We were counting the number of priests’ roles that I have.  I think priests have recognized because they are serving the same amount of people that a large group of priests would have served on a regular basis.”

- Fr. Daniele of CatholicBuzz Podcast paraphrasing Fr. Mike Schmidt @ 20:20







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