The shutting down is called "Restructuring". You can google it. Olmsted, dioceses Phoenix, in his 20 years, 2003-2003, restructured 91 parishes. This restructuring is in all parishes. It is the cut back of half churches, schools, buildings, clergy. This is new order/masonry. These clergy are not priests. In 2023, Coalition for Cancelled was formed. These clergy had on billboards that they were sad/ and wanted to be re-instated. Lies! They knew what was coming for years.
Snip from an article in the
Seattle Catholic by Kenneth C. Jones December 2003 "...I have no personal stories about what it was like before the Council. But I do have facts. And the facts show that
the Church was in the midst of an unprecedented period of growth in the several decades before the Council.That conclusion is inescapable by looking at the figures in just a few representative areas. And forgive me for throwing a lot of numbers at you, but as a lawyer I feel a statistic-laden brief is necessary to establish my case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Priests: In 1920 there were 21,019 total priests in the United States. In 1930 there were 26,925, in 1940 there were 33,912, in 1945 there were 38,451, in 1950 there were 42,970, in 1955 there were 46,970, in 1960 there were 53,796. This is not the mark of a declining Church, but of a vigorous Church — in 1960 it had a record number of men who were its frontline soldiers, whose ranks had grown 15 percent in the five years between 1955 and 1960.
Seminarians: As one would expect, as the number of priests increased, so did the number of seminarians — and it continued to increase substantially up to the Council. In 1920 there were 8,944 seminarians, in 1930 there were 16,300, in 1940 there were 17,087, in 1945 there were 21,523, in 1950 there were 25,622, in 1955 there were 32,394, in 1960 there were 39,896...."
This one has graphs for a better visual showing the growth up until V2, and the decline since V2. Incredible.
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