Posts Tagged ‘Priestly vocations’

National Seminary may be full in 2012

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

The National Seminary in New Zealand could be at full capacity next year. The Auckland Catholic Newspaper, The New Zealand Catholic, reports that although indications for student numbers for 2012 are very good, some prospective seminarians are still working through the admissions process. Final numbers will be known only when seminarians actually arrive next year. The Read more

Survey: New priests getting younger

Friday, April 29th, 2011

The average age of men ordained to the priesthood in 2011 is trending younger with the average age for the 2011 class at 34, with more than half between the ages of 25 and 34. This is slightly younger than in 2010, and follows the trend over the past five years of new priests getting Read more