The years following World War II saw a great rise in the number of ecclesiastical vocations in North America, and then a great decline following Vatican II, together with great losses from the ranks of priests and religious.
Father Mendl studies the data for these post-war and post-conciliar periods as regards one Salesian province, the eastern United States and Canada, between 1946 and 1988. He attempts a modest analysis of the data and draws some tentative conclusions from them.
Index
- The New Rochelle Province
- Methodology
- Data and Observations: 1946-1951
- Data and Observations: 1952-1960
- Data and Observations: 1961-1969
- Data and Observations: 1970-1978
- Data and Observations: 1979-1987
- Long-term Perseverance
- Changes of Status
- A Bright Spot amid the Losses
- Tentative Conclusions
Reference time period: 1946 – 1988
M. Mendl, “Personnel of the New Rochelle province: increase and decrease, 1946-1988″ in «Ricerche storiche salesiane», 13 (1994), 1, 225-252.
Reference institution:
Istituto Storico Salesiano