#Iraq
On June 3, 2022.
172 of our children, 99 boys and 73 girls, received the first #HolyCommunion in #Baghdida #Qaraqosh
The region that was heavily attacked by Isis militants a few years ago to exterminate Christians, scream out loud today:
Our #Faith and our #Cross have won pic.twitter.com/U36yY7x9DY— Fr. KARAM SHAMASHA ? ???????? ????? ????? (@Qashakaram) June 6, 2022
In the US Archdioceses like.. New York… ordain, what, a three guys a year?
This is Guadalajara … 70
I like to be precise. So I looked at the number of men ordained to the priesthood last year by the Archdiocese of New York. It was 10. They also have a Catholic population of about half (45%). So if we account for population, it’s more of a comparison of 22 priests to 70 priests. So ArchNY would need to increase their ordinations by 218% to see the same numbers as Guadalahara. So, for anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration, the numbers don’t lie.
[Looking more closely at the numbers… how many were from NY and how many were ordained for some special group. That makes a difference.]