Priesthood
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Facing terminal cancer, Polish man ordained priest in hospital bed
May is ordination month in many dioceses, but the ordination of Fr. Michal Los, FDP, a member of the Orionine... Read more
7 priests ordained in 7 years: What's the 'secret sauce' at this Ohio parish?
Starting in 2013, and every year since for the past seven years, one young man from the parish of St.... Read more
Deacon Drake: From Pentecostal preacher to Catholic priest
Deacon Drake McCalister is many things that most men about to become Catholic priests are not. Read more
Who are the new priests of 2019?
This year, 481 men in the United States will kneel in cathedral churches and be ordained as Catholic priests for... Read more
Bishop Olmsted sees 'renewal' in priestly formation, despite scandal
Despite the scandals of clerical sexual abuse that the Catholic Church has suffered in past decades, the Church in the... Read more
Dominican scholar: Church crisis calls for renewal of Catholic teaching on freedom
According to a Dominican scholar, the crisis of priestly fidelity is connected to a new cultural conception of human freedom... Read more
Pope Francis: Like holy oil, priests must pour themselves out for others
The holy oil blessed at the Chrism Mass is a reminder of the priest’s call to be close to the... Read more
The last Irish priest in Wyoming
“I am the last F.B.I.: foreign-born Irish,” Father Tom Sheridan, a retired priest of the Cheyenne diocese, told CNA. Read more
Questions from agnostic friend lead Spanish man to the priesthood
Fr. Juan Pablo Aroztegi became the youngest priest in the diocese of San Sebastian, Spain, when he was ordained last... Read more
From bartender to priest: 'God is very insistent!'
How do you go from being a bartender who has not attended Mass for 15 years to becoming a priest? Read more
Do not avoid the wounds of the Church, pope says in Sicily
In Sicily Saturday, Pope Francis said the wounds of the Church and the world are the wounds of Christ, and... Read more
Beloved Texas priest asks for prayers after ALS diagnosis
Fr. Stephen Jasso said he knew something was wrong this past February, about two months after retiring as the pastor... Read more
St John Southworth an 'inspiration and intercessor' for Westminster's priests
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster reflected on St John Southworth, a martyr of 17th century England, in a pastoral letter... Read more
What’s the secret sauce in Wichita’s vocations boom?
Father Chad Arnold, vocations director in the Diocese of Wichita, Kansas, is hesitant to dole out advice about how a... Read more
Commentary: Archbishop Ladaria and the transgender movement
This week Archbishop Luis Ladaria, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued (another) definitive statement on... Read more
CDF prefect: That only men can be priests is 'definitive'
The teaching of the Catholic Church on the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood, now or in the future,... Read more
Catholic priest in DRC quarantined as Ebola outbreak continues
A Catholic priest has contracted the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo amid a continuing outbreak that began... Read more
Report: Pope Francis affirms Church practice against admitting gay men to seminary
In a closed-door speech to Italian bishops on Monday, Pope Francis reportedly spoke about the number and quality of seminary... Read more
Runaway slave-turned-priest moves closer to beatification
The first African American priest in the U.S. could become the country’s first African American saint as his cause took... Read more
A good priest makes Christ present to his people, Pope says at Chrism Mass
At his annual Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday, Pope Francis said that a good priest is one who is close... Read more
