Sep 26, 2005 / 22:00 pm
National and international leaders of the Serra Club, a group dedicated to promoting priestly vocations, gathered for a convention last weekend.
Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo celebrated the mass Saturday evening for the three-day Serra Club Great Lakes Regional Convention, held at the Veterans Memorial Civic Center.
During his homily, the bishop shed some light and cast some fears on the issue of current priest shortage in the Catholic Church.
According to limanews.com, he said it is easy for people to worry that Catholicism is on the downswing in an era of increased secularism, but he pointed to the words in the Gospel of Luke-"The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few"-and said they were still true today.