Ireland could lose one quarter of its priests in next 15 years (The Tablet)

“547 priests of the 2,100 working priests in the Irish Church currently are aged between 61 and 75 and nearly 300 or 15% of working priests are aged 75 or over,” according to the report. “52 priests, or fewer than 2.5% of working priests, are younger than 40, and there are just 47 seminarians.”