The News‘ Rod Dreher gives his take. I just read the study he quotes, and that old sinking feeling returned to my stomach. By the measurements of active priests, ordinations, and adult conversions, the Dallas diocese had the third largest decline in the nation from 1995 to 2005. As Rod says, the new bishop has nowhere to go but up.
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