Dwindling Numbers and a Significant Demographic Shift

At the Mass I went to this morning, the priest during his homily provided some intriguing statistics on the number of priests in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Diocese of Orange. Last week, seven men from the Diocese of Orange became ordained priests, while only three were ordained from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Of the seven Diocese of Orange priests, four are Vietnamese, one is Hispanic, and the other two are Caucasion.

Of all the priests in the Diocese of Orange, thirty percent are Vietnamese.

How reliable these numbers are, I don't know. However, since the priest who gave out this information (who, BTW, is Vietnamese) regularly works for the diocese of Orange in some administrative capacity, I'm inclined to believe that they are fairly accurate.