Fri Jan 9, 2026 - 5:52 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — The number of Catholic priests and seminarians has recently declined worldwide, according to newly released statistics from 2023, as priestly societies devoted to offering the traditional Latin Mass continue to grow. The total number of priests worldwide dropped by 734 from 2022 to 2023 despite a 16 million increase in the number of Catholics, according to the most recently available data, published by the Vatican agency Fides. The number of seminarians during that period also declined proportionately by 1,986, affirming that the longstanding Church crisis has been continuing at least until recently. The year 2023 saw a total of 406,996 Catholic priests, according to Fides, a count that presumably does not include priests of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), which numbered 733 as of November 1, 2025, not including its bishops. The SSPX, by contrast, the largest society of traditional priests, has seen a steady growth in its number of …
Non esiste la distinzione tra modernisti e tradizionalisti. La verità e la dottrina è una e solo coloro che vengono tacciati di tradizionalismo la seguono. Gli altri sono utili idioti del modernismo scomunicato e che non significa niente solo slogan allettanti.