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The #1 Vocation Killer, by Kennedy Hall – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Crisis Magazine

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine, May 10, 2024

Kennedy Hall is the author of three books, Terror of Demons: Reclaiming Traditional Catholic Masculinity, Lockdown with the Devil, and SSPX: The Defence. He is a freelance author, audiobook narrator and host of the Kennedy Report Podcast. He is married with six children and lives in Ontario, Canada. He can be contacted through, and his work can be found at www.kennedyhall.ca.

 

The reason we still have a vocations crisis isn’t poor catechesis or smaller families. It’s something more insidious.

Kennedy HallUnless you have been living under a rock, I am sure you are aware that the Church is experiencing a vocation crisis. The numbers are bleak, and they have been for decades. Sure, there are bright spots here and there, mainly with traditional orders and societies of priests who often ordain more priests in a single seminary than the entire nation of Ireland did last year. Nonetheless, compared to the number of the faithful who need more priests, the number of priests is not increasing commensurately.

This despite the fact that serious Catholics have, by and large, embraced the perennial teachings of the Church on openness to life and are “breeding like rabbits,” much to the chagrin of climate-change zealots. During Covid, young families flocked to traditional parishes and the chapels of the SSPX in great numbers, necessitating more Masses due to overstuffed churches. In some cases, more chapels were acquired to deal with the demand. However, the supply of vocations is simply not keeping up with the demand. …

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