are the number of priests declining?
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Over the past half century, the number of priests across the U.S. has dropped by about 38 percent — from nearly 60,000 diocesan and religious order priests in 1970 to 37,192 in 2016, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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They oversee a ward which is about 200 families, sometimes more. Bishops are called of God, not voted in by members, there is no campaigning and no pay. Each Bishop, as well as his counselors, have their own occupations and make a living not by donations from church membership but from their own job.
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There's no church-wide ban on smoking. I've met priests who smoke like chimneys, but then they have a stressful job. Most nuns/sisters live in community, and all nuns/sisters take a vow of poverty. ... For these reasons, I would expect the rates of smoking nuns to be quite low, but not zero.
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In most Orthodox traditions and in some Eastern Catholic Churches men who are already married may be ordained priests, but priests may not marry after ordination.
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There are only 1,412 cloistered nuns out of 66,608 sisters in the United States. They take four final vows: chastity, poverty, enclosure and obedience, and they follow a rule of silence. For their enitre lives, their time will be divided between constant prayer and the work of the convent.
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The big news is not that some Episcopalians will have a zippier express lane into Catholicism, but that there will soon be even more married Catholic priests in America. ... These churches are fully Catholic, obedient to the pope, but they ordain married men, although they do not allow unmarried priests to get married.
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Those three populations have declined by 10 percent, 80 percent, and 90 percent, respectively—which means an average decline of 60 percent. But the total number of actual animals has gone down from 5,550 to 4,605, which is a decline of just 17 percent.
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But there have always been married priests in the non-Latin rites, like Ukrainian Catholicism or Maronite Catholicism. These churches are fully Catholic, obedient to the pope, but they ordain married men, although they do not allow unmarried priests to get married.
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Clergy: Should Ministers Be Draft-Exempt? Ever since conscription was adopted by the U.S. during the Civil War, ministers, priests and seminarians have been automatically exempt from military draft. Today, 101,500 men are classified as 4D— exempt as ordained clerics or seminarians.
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The clergy in the lowest-paid 10 percent of all U.S. clergy earn approximately $23,570 or less per year. The highest-paid American clergy earn an estimated $78,420 or more per year. The average clergy salary in the United States is $44,140 per year.
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Priests are a lot of fun to PvP and PvE with, regardless of spec, and are easy to find groups with. ... They can be monsters in open world PvP scenarios, but the fight is typically...
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Laicized priests are still considered priests in the Catholic Church. ... They may not present themselves as priests in their dress nor perform sacraments such as celebrating Mass or hearing confession.
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I could not in practice dismiss all Anglican Orders as "null and void" because I know that a number of Anglican Bishops have in fact had the presence at their ordination of an Old Catholic or an Orthodox bishop, that is, somebody who, in the traditional theology of our Church, has been ordained according to a valid ...
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In Catholicism, monks are not the same as priests (although a monk may be ordained as a priest also). ... A fully ordained Buddhist bhikkhu and a Buddhist "priest" are the same things, in that there is no order of clergy separate from the bhikkhus to preside over rituals and give teachings on the dharma.
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In the United States, the Military Ordinariate only accepts presbyters (“priests”) as chaplains. Priests are almost always celibate in the Latin Church, so therefore would not be married.
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There were 4765 nuns in Australia last year compared with 12,619 in 1976 and a peak of 14,622 in 1966. In 1901, there were 3622. ... There are eight now, but those numbers are rare in Catholic schools where few nuns are teachers or principals. In 1976, 48 per cent of nuns were in education; now it is 12 per cent.