1.   Financiers and technologists are the new priests, and women are significantly underrepresented among them.

2.   The parish will be getting a new priest soon.

3.   Catholic leaders say they are well aware that they have had to become more selective just when the church is most desperate for new priests.

4.   Cardinals involved in the meetings say the agenda may be broader, including how to better prepare new priests for the celibate life.

5.   Dolan points out that the new priests being graduated from his seminary and others grew up with no other role model.

6.   For every new priest who is ordained, six die or retire or leave the priesthood.

7.   He was asked how it felt to be a new priest, spiritually empowered to consecrate the bread and wine as the body and blood of Christ.

8.   In Sloatsburg, N.Y., in Rockland County, a new priest, the Rev. Frank Diaz, read the same announcement at St. Joan of Arc Church.

9.   It is not the worst thing in the world, but it is fascinating to see how folks can be so excited by the sermons of the new priests.

10.   Mowrer asked the new priest to write a few words about himself in the bulletin.