Here are some more factual statistics about the Holy Roman Catholic Church before Vatican II and after here in the United States. These Statistics are from CARA Georgetown University.

Priests: 1945 = 38,451 1950 = 42,970 1955 = 46,970 1960 = 53,796 1965 = 58,000

Priests: 2013 = 38,800 Diocesan Priests = 26,500 and Religious = 12,300

Ordinations to the Priesthood: 1965 = 994

Ordinations: 2013 = 511

Seminarians: 1965 = 49,000 Graduate level: = 8325

Graduate level Seminarians: 2013 = 3694

Religious Sisters in the whole world 1973 = 1 million. In 2013 = 721,935.

Parishes: 1965 = 17,637

Parishes: 2013 = 17,413

Mass Attendance in 1965: 65 % of Catholics attended Sunday Mass

2013, Only 24 % of Catholics attend Sunday Mass. Graph from CARA Georgetown U.

You can see by this graph, that since Vatican II, 50 % more Catholics have stopped attending Sunday Mass.

Students in 1965 at 8414 elementary schools = 2.6 million.

Students in 2013 at 5636 elementary schools = 1.5 million.

Marriages in the Catholic Church have gone down to very few too. Graph from CARA Georgetown U.

World wide there were 419,728 priests in 1970. In 2013 there are only 412,236. Yet the Catholic population has doubled from 653,000 in 1970 to 1,196,000 in 2013.

Out of all the increased Catholics, why are not more vocations? Because we live the Catholic lite religion. So many call themselves Catholics, but do not live out their faith.

The average age of priests in the US in 1970 was 35. In 2013 it is around 63. Here is a photo of priests at a funeral in California a month ago.

In the traditional orders you find a way much younger age medium.

As the saying goes, Biological Solution, Biological Solution. Soon we will be out of the “Vatican II Generation” and in not so long of a time into the “Traditional Catholic Generation”. Death comes sooner or later for all of us. Jesus save your Church.

The original author of this blog passed away in July of 2016. RIP Father Carota.