The Filipino Pope can enhance the priestly professions in the Catholic stronghold

Manila. The Filipino Cardinal is among the candidates who will happen to Francisco as the new Pope, sometimes the Church in the most Catholic countries in Asia faces a decrease in priestly professions.

John Alfred Rabina, Advisor to the Central Symposium of the University of Santo Thomas, the oldest in the Philippines, said according to the statistics we have (…) each priest serves about 9000 Catholics.

He told AFP on a visit to the seminar headquarters on the campus of Santo Thomas University.

The Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Talal is one of the candidates who became the Pope, and another Filipino Pablo Vergilio David appeared as a candidate at the last minute.

Although they warned that they should not carry for their citizens, the Philippine parents told Agence France -Presse that they believed that the Pope from his country could inspire a recovery in professions.

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Father Robert Reyes, a well -known active priest, says he warned of the situation when he was a professional director of Catholic bishops in the Philippines (COCF) from 1987 to 1998.

The bishops have already warned that there are clear signs of a decrease in professions, and how many years have passed? “He asked.

COCF says he does not hold numbers, but the Filipino Church that was established in November is the first national month of professional awareness, in order to “meet the urgent need for more priests in the country.”

Broken confidence

Father Jerome Cyliano, a COCF spokesman, admits that there is no secret in this need.

He cited the scandals of sexual assault that struck the World Church in the early first decade of the twentieth century.

Then he began to reject the entrance to the symposium. We still feel influenced. “

Celano believes that the rise of the Filipino Pope will make an explosion of joy and pride, although he doubts that it is sufficient.

I don’t know if the Pope is a Filipino immediately restores broken confidence. “

Others told AFP that other factors in professional decline, such as cultural changes that make young people in the country more difficult.

Also because young people are very exposed to the secular world, with trips, with the Internet and social networks, ”Reyes explained.

The doctor told Nile Benna, 27, Agence France -Presse that he believed that the potential Filipinos from the Pope would enhance faith among his citizens.

He said that the Pope speaks Filipino, in a simple Filipina, speaking as if he was talking to you directly (…) He will be an inspiration. “

Rabina, the symposium counselor, recalled that his decision to join the clergy was driven by Pope Francis to the Philippines in 2015.

Aarfin Ebalo, a professor of theology at Santo Thomas University, said that there was a time when almost all families were looking forward to having a priest.

They thought it was the grace of God. “

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