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Survey of 2023’s New Priests: Most Were Altar Boys, Pray the Rosary, Go to Eucharistic Adoration, Parents Stayed Married…

More than 450 men are set to be ordained priests this year, and the survey of their ordination class shows that the overwhelming majority of priests-to-be were raised Catholic in intact families and individually showed habits of frequent church service and regular prayer life.