text: My bishop, who seems to be a good man, told me that he is "waiting for the Holy Spirit" on this issue. Don't know what that means. But the writing has been on the wall since 1979, when vocations to the priesthood began to collapse. Since then, we have had several different vocation recruitment programs, with scant results. Right now, the "John Paul II priests" are in charge of the effort. Twelve seminarians, three in college. One left within two weeks. This is not exactly the "vocation boom" EWTN radio brags about. The bishops seem willing to let this go on, and on, and on. Waiting for the Holy Spirit sounds a lot like the Jews who are waiting for the Messiah.