Article: WHERE HAVE ALL THE FATHERS GONE? CELIBACY KEY ISSUE ON CATHOLIC CHURCH'S TROUBLE ATTRACTING AND KEEPING PRIESTS.(Lifestyle)

It wasn't long ago that a young man's intention to enter the seminary and become a Roman Catholic priest was a source of great pride to his family.

Today that decision often meets with resistance from parents who question their sons' prospects for happiness and fulfillment in a vocation that thousands of priests have abandoned.

The change speaks volumes about the challenges faced by the Catholic Church in this country as it struggles to cope with a critical shortage of priests, fueled largely by the Vatican's insistence on a celibate male clergy.

More than 20,000 men in this country have left the priesthood over the past 30 years, many of them ...

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