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From The Catholic Herald<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Priestly vocations are most likely to flourish among the homeschooled, according to a US study.<\/p>\n

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (Cara), a research institute at Georgetown University, found that young American men who had been homeschooled were four times more likely to enter seminaries than those educated in Catholic institutions.<\/p>\n

Although the number of home-schooled American Catholics is small \u2013 just 100,000 are being homeschooled at the moment, compared to two million in Catholic schools \u2013 it was this minority which provided eight per cent of young men on course for ordination.<\/p>\n

On average, they had spent seven years being homeschooled. Sixteen was the average age of discerning a vocation to the priesthood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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