UK: Men entering priesthood on the increase

The numbers of men entering English seminaries to become Catholic priests have hit a ten year high.
By Peter Hutchison
15 Nov 2010

A total of 56 men began training for the priesthood in September this year, the National Office of Vocation said. That was up on the 49 who started the process to become priests in 2009.

The rise coincided with the four-day visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain.

Catholic leaders put the rise in applicants down to outreach programmes which were leading young men to ask questions about what was important in life to them. the rest