Vocations crisis in France
Number of seminarians drops by 1/4 in less than 2 years
We learn from the Diocese of Evry that the dioceses of Ile-de-France currently have 150 seminarians. Something to be proud of? Not really.
In 2020 the Vocations Department had 200, a 25% decrease in just two years, as one reader notes. And a little less than in 2010, when Paix Liturgique published a census of seminarians by diocese - there were then 70 in Paris, 34 in Versailles, 14 in Evry, 12 in Nanterre, 10 in Créteil, the same number in Pontoise, 3 in Meaux and 2 in Saint-Denis, i.e. 155 in all.
Between 2020 and 2022, there is no lack of causes or pretexts: revelation of abuses just about everywhere - what is known is only the tip of the iceberg, Covid, continuation of the voluntary destruction of the priesthood and clerics in the name of the "fight against clericalism" or other good intentions of which, As we know, the road to Hell is paved with them, parish priests making a spectacle of themselves on TikTok under the pretext of evangelising young people, and in Paris in particular, the arrival of the Episcopal Delegate for vocations, the late Abbé Cyril Gordien.
Since then, the influx of seminarians seems to have dried up, which was perhaps the objective, after all, of Bishop Marsset and Bishop Pontier - it is easier to build a church without priests if there are no more vocations. But it is more likely that they will end up with a Church without faithful or priests.
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