Become a priest? A decision that takes a lifetime. In an increasingly secularized society, the Church has fewer and fewer priests. “The figure remains proportional to the number of practicing Christians in France,” notes Jean-Luc Garin, bishop of the Jura.
“We are going to talk about vocation”
“The Catholic institution not being an institution like the others, it is difficult for it to publish prospectuses to carry out recruitment. It’s not just a job, it’s a vocation,” recalls Jean-Luc Garin. “There is both a vocational dimension because we give ourselves for life. I am not a priest or bishop 35 hours a week. And at the same time, there must be professionalism. I have the impression of doing all the jobs: human resources, gardening, real estate, relational”, he explains.
This desire to return to orders, for him, goes back to “CM1, that…