How are vocations doing? The numbers tell the story

Over at Catholic Vote, Thomas Peters is touting some interesting statistics about this year’s class of ordinands. The USCCB has been publishing a report on men being ordained as priests for the last 15 years.

A little Googling, though, reveals a little more.

This year, according to the USCCB, 480 men are to be ordained in the United States.

That’s a 10% jump from last year, when it was 440.

And it’s an even more sizable jump from 2008, there were 401.

Things are looking up.