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Why the Catholic church is 'hemorrhaging' priests

  • Written by Verónica Giménez Béliveau, Professor, Religion and Society , University of Buenos Aires

Priests are Catholicism’s greatest figures: shepherds who manage believers’ relationship with the divine.

But, as Pope Francis recently acknolwedged, their numbers are dwindling. In fact, the number of priests worldwide has been dropping since the 1930s.

In Argentina, a predominantly Catholic country, the Church lost 23 percent of its...

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