They do not alter the absolute collapse of the ecclesiastical ruin but point out that not everything is crumbling. Although to the dismay of not a few, those minimal upticks are all tradis. On the other side, not one. As if they had ceased to exist.
That line is also pointed to by the news about Spanish seminaries that ABC publishes today. And which cannot be linked. It seems universally accepted, of course with enthusiasm on my part and I suppose with desolation on the other, that the new priests are tradis, practically in their entirety. Well, I’m very glad and let the others get screwed. In the other meaning of the verb jorobar.
ABC reports some quite positive numbers for these decadent days we live in some dioceses. Last year, the downward line had already broken in Spain to recover the thousand seminarians. And this year the number from the previous year has been surpassed. Well, very good.
The list is headed by Madrid with 116 seminarians. Followed by Toledo with 74. The shadow of Don Marcelo is long. Then Getafe with 64. And a 10 for Don Ginés. In Valencia 58. Those who have passed through there since Olaechea have not done badly. García Lahiguera, Roca, García Gasco, Osoro, Cañizares and Benavent. Then comes Sevilla with 51. Very good also for Don José Ángel. Cartagena has 50. Very good figure also for Lorca. Córdoba has 46, the fruit of Demetrio’s pontificate. I hope Fernández does not squander them.
From the other extreme, and with zero seminarians, are Ciudad Rodrigo, Jaca, Palencia and Tarazona. Ciudad Rodrigo and Jaca practically disappeared, united to Salamanca and Huesca. There they have their disappearance justified. Tarazona will have to justify its future. Without vocations there is no diocese. And Palencia, cradle of thousands of vocations, is a fulfilled example of how two bishops, Castellanos and Herrero, both Augustinians, can devastate a diocese that was exemplary. And that Blázquez, Palmero, Munilla and Escudero were unable to restore.
Tomorrow more (s D q)