What Happened to All the Good Priests?
Several years ago I was at a dinner in Florida and a bunch of us were discussing Church history in the 20th century, especially the state of the priesthood. It was a light-hearted discussion about the topic, "What happened to all the good priests in the 20th century?" After typical answers for awhile, an older Polish gentleman chimed in, "Maybe they all died in the World Wars." The levity departed from the room at the profundity of his answer. Everyone got silent because he seemed to have said something unexpected, but accurate. Even the man who said it seemed surprised at the potential accuracy that had just come out of [...]