This new house of God can seat 400 people with ease, and another 140 seminarians in the transept. However, while the people can easily fill their seats in the nave, there are still in the transept a number of empty pews, waiting for the future applicants for the priesthood that you are to obtain, dear readers, by your urgent prayers. The 17 young priests ordained this year have been sent to the four comers of the earth to join their elders who are too few in number. Our Argentine seminary will give us another four priests in December, which will bring our total number of priests to over 370. We may wish for more, but we are happy with those we have, especially when we see how much harm the Devil seeks to inflict on them, and how much good God works through their priestly hands.
Christian families flourish once more.
A new generation of children calls for even more care and attention to be given to the schools already absorbing a good deal of our energy. Slowly a fabric of the Faith is forming again in Society. Yes indeed, the enemies of God striving to build a civilization without Him are ever less afraid of making themselves heard, witness their plans for legalizing same-sex marriages. This remark is, an invitation to take action, action in a variety of forms, but firstly the action proposed to us by the Church. In vain will be all efforts to halt the decline of civilization if the family, principle and foundation of society, is not brought back to the Faith of the Gospel.