They are very numerous, really very numerous. They have no work, many live from a small piece of arable land. We have a republican system, catholic in name, but atheistic in reality. In the first years of their priesthood, priests do not receive anything from the State. They live on the help they receive from the parish, from Mass intentions, and that is all.
Many priests work in schools in order to survive.
They are all missionaries, and they come from Spain and from Peru, and one of them from Italy. Several years ago, from a cousin of mine who lives in Germany and who came to Medjugorje. She invited me to come to Medjugorje, and because I have to go to Rome this year, I decided to come to Medjugorje with her. This is a beautiful sanctuary where I find much faith, where I find faithful who live their faith, faithful who come for confession. I was hearing the confessions of Spanish pilgrims.