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Priestly vocations starting to ascend - As the U.S. Catholic Church revives from scandal, clergy ranks increase

Published on Friday, July 04, 2008
By Karen Maeshiro

William Crowe Jr. made a good living as a machine-shop worker and later as a computer programmer, but he always sensed something was missing.

Though he was materially successful, there was a spiritual void that possessions could never fill.

A product of Catholic schools, the 49-year-old Granada Hills man did not realize his true calling until he started becoming active in his church again during the 1990s.

"I began to realize that God was calling me to work in the church," Crowe said. "The emptiness started disappearing. The satisfaction was there. I felt God was preparing me to do something."

Crowe was among 12 men ordained May 31 by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in downtown L.A.

The 2008 class is the largest ordained for the Los Angeles Archdiocese in the past 19 years. Most years, the class size had averaged between four and five, according to the archdiocese   Read Full Article...

 
 

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