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March 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The average salary of a parish priest in Spain is between 700-800 euros (£580
– £665) a month.
In a clear reference to the frustrations of Spain’s five million jobless a
voice asks at the start of the video: “How many promises have been made
to you that have not been fulfilled?”
Recent statistics show half of young Spaniards between 18 and 25 are out of
work and a national rate of 23 per cent unemployment is expected to rise
before the year end.
Once the bastion of Gen Francisco Franco’s Spain, the power and influence of
the Catholic Church has waned since the death of the dictator in 1975. On
its transition to democracy Spain was officially declared a secular state
and church attendance has since been on the decline.
Spain’s Catholic Church claims that 73 per cent of the 46 million population
consider themselves Roman Catholics, although fewer than 15 per cent of
those admit to attending Mass regularly.
Pope Benedict XVI has made it his priority to reawaken Christianity in
countries which have drifted from their traditional Roman Catholic roots.
The Vatican views Spain as a key battleground in the creeping secularism of
modern society and the 84 year-old Pontiff has visited the country three
times since taking office in 2005.
The success of last summer’s World Youth Day, which was held in Madrid and
drew a crowd of two million to the final open-air mass celebrated by the
Pope, is credited with boosting recruits to the priesthood.
Last year for the first time in decades, the number of recruits entering
seminaries across Spain rose on the year before. Figures show 1,278 took up
the vocation in the 2011-2012 academic year, an increase of 4.2 per cent.
But figures published by the Episcopal Conference, the body that represents
Spain’s Roman Catholic bishops, reveal that the number of priests in Spain
has fallen by 25 per cent in the last decade.
Such is the shortfall that many neighbouring parishes have to share a priest.
Spain currently has 22,686 active priests serving in its 18,633 parishes.
The latest campaign, which cost 7,000 euros (£5,800) to produce, was an
attempt to “give rise to priestly vocation through innovative
communication,” said a statement by the Episcopal Conference.
The clergy topped the list of “Top Ten Happiest Jobs” in a study
published by Forbes Magazine last September.
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