A dearth of priests suggests the Catholic church should widen recruitment
The Guardian -

It’s no wonder numbers training for the priesthood continue to fall when married men or any woman are still barredWalking down towards the River Nidd in Knaresborough, the pretty North Yorkshire market town where I grew up, it would be easy to pass by St Mary’s Catholic church without noticing it. Built only two years after the Emancipation Act in 1829, the church was designed to resemble a private house in order not to offend local Protestant sensibilities. Two centuries later, sectarian...

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