“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.”
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