High profile recruitment drive for new priests fails to attract even one response

IRELAND
Irish Central

By
PATRICK COUNIHAN,
IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Monday, August 6, 2012

A recruitment campaign by the Catholic Church in Ireland has failed to find even one potential priest.

A series of ads in newspapers and newsletters across the diocese of Elphin has attracted no response.

The recruitment drive across Sligo, Roscommon, Westmeath, and Galway was aimed at getting young men to join the priesthood.

But the Irish Sun newspaper reports that the initiative has proved ‘holy’ unsuccessful despite dole figures in excess of 400,000.

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