{"id":3504,"date":"2010-08-02T08:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2010-12-25T23:28:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T05:28:16","slug":"fewer-catholic-seminarians-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/02\/fewer-catholic-seminarians-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewer Catholic seminarians in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of applicants to seminary in the Roman Catholic Church in German has dropped to a record low of 150 nation-wide, reports the president of the bishops\u2018 conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch. Just four years ago there were 211. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.focus.de\/panorama\/welt\/missbrauchsskandal\/missbrauchsskandal-noch-weniger-wollen-priester-werden_aid_536675.html\" target=\"_blank\">Focus<\/a><\/em> quotes the archbishops, \u201cYou cannot undo the damage of an earthquake with nice words. Rather, one must do the work of rebuilding from the ground up. We have undergone a deep shakeup, indeed, certainly the worst crisis of the Catholic Church in Germany since 1945.\u201d The Church must understand this as an opportunity. \u201cWe wish to strive with unified efforts to regain lost credibility.\u201d (tr. awr)<\/p>\n<p>Report in English at <em>Earth Times <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthtimes.org\/articles\/news\/337481,germanys-top-catholic-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of applicants to seminary in the Roman Catholic Church in German has dropped to a record low of 150 nation-wide, reports the president of the bishops\u2018 conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[893,895,894],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ordained-ministry","tag-archbishop-robert-zollitsch","tag-diocesan-seminarians","tag-earth-times"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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