Our diocese keeps rotating priests from one location to another, obviously filling gaps as all our older Irish clergy retire. New Pastors typically only have barely 3 years experience after ordination and are nearly all foreign born (Mexico, Philipines, some from Africa. They still have heavy accents and can not easily shed their home country customs, outlook and social conventions. They do not assimilate well and parishioners do not acclimate well to their leadership nor their theology. As a result of the growing shortages everywhere, our church in the USA is contracting into a smaller and smaller presence.