Filipino pope could revive priestly vocations in Catholic bastion

"According to the statistics we have... one priest is catering to around 9,000 Catholics," John Alfred Rabena, chancellor of UST Central Seminary, one the country's oldest, said this week. It is a situation that was leading to "exhaustion" among an overworked clergy, he told AFP during a visit to the seminary's art deco building on the sprawling University of Santo Tomas campus. Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is among the favourites to succeed Pope Francis, while another Filipino, Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David...