Which country produces the most priests relative to the size of its Catholic population? Is it Brazil, the powerhouse of Latin American Catholicism? Perhaps the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with its fast-growing Church? Or maybe the steadfastly Catholic Philippines?

The answer is: none of these. The nation supplying the most priests per Catholic in the world is, surprisingly, Burma (Myanmar). That is the conclusion of a compelling new study by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).