By Fr. John A. Perricone, Crisis Magazine - North American ordinations are also in free-fall. One East Coast seminary, which hosts three major metropolitan dioceses, has a seminarian population hovering around 50—that is, 50 seminarians for more than 7.8 million Catholics. When that seminary served only one Archdiocese, it housed three hundred seminarians before 1960.... This is a collapse of historic proportions. Cause for concern, don’t you think? Might it have something to do with the precipitous decline of reverence for the Holy Eucharist?