This was the moment the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis ordained its largest class of priests in 19 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the archdiocese, it was a day of joy as well as a sign of hope following difficult times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FR. JOSEPH TAPHORN 13 men were ordained to the priesthood with 11 coming from the St. Paul Seminary. Fr. Taphorn attributes many reasons for the increase in men this year: from family life to the faith programs and ministries available to young men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FR. JOSEPH TAPHORN While ordination numbers might not be on the rise in the U.S. as a whole, the average age of these men is dropping. Half the men being ordained priests this year are 31 years old or younger\u20143 years younger than in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis welcomed 13 new priests this spring\u2014the largest number in 19 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":69868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,165],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GTdYXIrJ6w8","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstpaulseminaryordeneng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/https:\/\/youtu.be\/GTdYXIrJ6w8","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69873,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69871\/revisions\/69873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Rector, St. Paul Seminary<\/strong>
The archdiocese here has been through a lot in recent years and bankruptcy and Archbishop Hebda was sent in as an interim and became the archbishop here, recently called the synod a couple of years ago. And so there's really been just kind of a new sense of life and vitality and excitement. Turning a page, in a sense and, I think, seeing so many men ordained to the priesthood\u2014I think one of the largest in the country this spring\u2014was maybe just kind of a sense of God is really blessing the local church.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rector, St. Paul Seminary<\/strong>
In general, I would just say vocations are strong and healthy in this archdiocese. I do think a lot of it has to do with this sense of turning the page. I think this has also been really a center where the Church is very alive in renewal movements. So there's just been a great kind of tradition here. There's great evangelistic outreaches here, NET teams, National Evangelization Teams, St. Paul's Outreach are home here in this archdiocese.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n