"...since 1969, the number of Catholics in the archdiocese has declined by 69 percent and the number of priests by 65 percent."    

Catholicism, like mainstream protestant denominations, are having a hard time attracting and retaining millennials.  If this doesn't change, then within the next decade or so, the church will not need any priests and the doctors of the law will be reciting canon law to no one but themselves.