Fatherman Farland, good to see you. How are you been?

I'm doing well. How about you?

Good. I'm doing fine. Thank you. We are approaching quickly the Angeles Press conference

for Catholic tradition that is coming up here in Kansas City in October and wanted to chat with

you specifically about this because this year's theme is on vocations and you are the vocations

director for the U.S. district. So could we talk a little bit about why I would presume that the planners of the conference at

Angeles Press have talked with you and said, hey, this is important.

This is why we're doing this conference.

Right.

Well, this year, the Jubilee year, for the whole society, our superior general, Father

Palirani has asked us to emphasize vocations, preaching about it, encouraging vocations,

giving conferences, writing, et cetera, any way that we can this year in particular to bring that and this idea of vocations to the to the forefront,

to the into the minds of people and to get them thinking about it, praying for vocations and

doing what we can to encourage the pursuit of vocations.

We are facing, I think it's fair to say, a pretty stark crisis in the number of vocations.

There are different studies, different numbers.

We've done some stories on this on FSSPX. News recently, where in England, in the United

States, it seems to be that there's a slight uptick, but essentially

broadly, and even including the United States, if we look at the last 30, 40, 50 years,

there has been a plummeting of vocations. Is this, is this the bigger crisis or is it the

crisis in belief? Like, how does this compare in terms of kind of all the different crises that we're

facing in the church right now?

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