According to Fr Brendan Hoban, “the average age of priests in Ireland now is 70+”.

Source: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-other-profession-would-ask-people-to-work-beyond-75-parish-priests-under-ever-increasing-workload-as-vocations-drop/a1863089531.html

After encountering Jesuit priests in her village, she converted to Catholicism at 19. Her relatives and the village attempted to punish her for her beliefs.

Source: https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/here-are-11-american-saints-to-remember-on-july-fourth/81844

“All of our parishes and priests are working to support the effort by preparing food, by volunteering at one of our shelters and by praying for the newcomers among us,” he adds.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/05/14/el-paso-bishop-immigrants-our-lost-brothers-sisters/

Also arrested were priests Gerardo Rodríguez, Mykel Monterrey and Raúl Zamora, who provide religious services in churches in Managua, Nicaraguan media outlets edited in Costa Rica reported.

Source: https://ticotimes.net/2023/12/31/nicaragua-detains-over-a-dozen-priests-amid-church-tensions

“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/gary-d-barnett/it-is-time-to-put-to-bed-the-lies-and-misconceptions-associated-with-the-term-anarchy/

Another arrest warrant has been out for him since 2022 for his alleged involvement in the 1989 murder of six Catholic priests and two female collaborators by the army on the campus of the Jesuit Central American University (UCA).

Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2023/12/24/arrest-of-former-salvadoran-president-alfredo-cristiani-ordered?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=main&utm_campaign=rss

A post on the Archdiocese of Glasgow revealed that the attack took place in the diocese which is home to three priests serving in Glasgow parishes - Fathers Thaddeus, Ezra and Chido.

Source: https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/23252732.priest-burnt-death-tragic-attack-tributes-pour/?ref=rss

A procession of hundreds of cardinals, bishops and an estimated 3,700 priests took up their seats.

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/news/pilgrims-throng-st-peter-s-square-for-benedict-s-funeral-mass

A second change states that five women religious and five men religious will be elected to represent their institutes of consecrated life rather than 10 religious priests as in the past.

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/cna/vatican-announces-laypeople-including-women-will-vote-in-synod-on-synodality-assembly

As great a good as marriage is, we priests know that God requires even more from us.

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/cna/no-pope-francis-didn-t-really-hint-that-the-requirement-for-priestly-celibacy-will-be-lifted

Asked if he ever confronted any of the abuser priests, he recalled their denials and reluctance to admit their abuse even as he outlined the evidence, saying: “Some of them were very devious.

Source: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/we-were-never-trained-for-celibacy-dr-diarmuid-martin-tells-joe-duffy-he-has-met-two-women-he-could-have-imagined-as-his-life-partner/a1585074070.html

As to the second part of your question, how we get more priests, this is no small challenge, though certainly not insurmountable.

Source: https://catholicmessenger.net/2023/05/priests-by-the-numbers-in-our-diocese/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=priests-by-the-numbers-in-our-diocese

At 7.50am, "amidst death-like silence, the dull, ominous sound of the deathbell was heard", they headed a grim procession which trudged out of the pinioning room to the gallows, with priests reading prayers to them as they walked.

Source: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23249068.two-spennymoor-murderers-hanged-durham-exactly-150-years-ago/?ref=rss

A time when suppression of ideas and an Orwellian adherence to orthodoxies mandated by the high priests of wokeness are expected.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12130245/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Cancel-witch-trials-not-open-debate.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

At the end of Mass, the assignments for the seven new priests were announced.

Source: https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/seven-men-ordained-to-the-priesthood-for-the-archdiocese-of-cincinnati/91235

At this critical juncture in St John’s history, the Community of the Resurrection, an Anglo-Catholic order of missionary priests and lay brothers, came into the picture.

Source: https://mg.co.za/article/2023-08-02-a-leap-of-faith-2/

BERLIN (AP) — Several Catholic priests held a ceremony blessing same-sex couples outside Cologne Cathedral on Wednesday night in a protest against the city’s conservative archbishop, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki.

Source: https://www.bladenjournal.com/uncategorized/71875/catholic-priests-bless-same-sex-couples-in-defiance-of-a-german-archbishop

Biden told WTMJ that the Norbertines, the order of priests at the Catholic school he attended in Claymont, Delaware, had their abbey house in De Pere, Wisconsin.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jill-biden-ap-philadelphia-eagles-joe-biden-jim-kenney-b2280421.html

“Blacks behave most wickedly in many plantations and priests themselves suffer ruin of both the soul and the body.”

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/confronting-georgetowns-history-of-enslavement

But Benedict never admitted to any Vatican failure on abuse, and much to the dismay of victims, he never took action against bishops who ignored or covered up the abuse of their priests and moved known pedophiles around to abuse again.

Source: https://www.startribune.com/benedict-xvi-reluctant-pope-who-chose-to-retire-dies-at-95/600239839/