Many people nowadays talk about a shortage of priests and dwindling numbers of consecrated men and women.There does seem to be some truth to that kind of talk, at least in some places. While the number of Catholic priests in the world between 1970 and 2012 remained about the same, for example, the number of lay Catholics in the world doubled. By the early 2000s, 15% of parishes in North America found themselves without a resident pastor, compared...