Spain: Benedictine Prior Warns Anti-Church Regime
Prior Santiago Cantera has called on Spain's socialist regime to "leave the dead in peace". Cantera leads the Benedictine monastery in the Valle de …
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Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
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Such a huge monastery!! I'll bet that before Vatican II, it has a substantial number of monks, but now there are probably only a handful. Reminds me of my own archdiocese of Philadelphia seminary, which before the filth of Vatican II had 580 seminarians, with several more studying in Rome. 1955-62= 580 seminarians. 1965=550. 1975= 275. 1985= 220, 2000= 175 , 210= 200, TODAY= 120 (OF WHICH 80 are …More
Such a huge monastery!! I'll bet that before Vatican II, it has a substantial number of monks, but now there are probably only a handful. Reminds me of my own archdiocese of Philadelphia seminary, which before the filth of Vatican II had 580 seminarians, with several more studying in Rome. 1955-62= 580 seminarians. 1965=550. 1975= 275. 1985= 220, 2000= 175 , 210= 200, TODAY= 120 (OF WHICH 80 are men studying for other dioceses, only about 40+ left for Philadelphia.....fewer than before the USA Civil War (1861-65). All due to Vatican II and the Novus Ordo. Not surprisingly, the decline, which had stopped in last years of JPII and under Benedict XVI there was even a small upsurge, has crashed again under Bergoglio. No surprise, right. 
Liam Ronan
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That's why the cheese-steak sales dropped off dramatically in Philly, I suppose.
Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
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