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Priests
July 2019
July 24, 2019
Words of wisdom from Simcha Fisher: Who but priests understand better how serious our spiritual...
May 2019
May 26, 2019
From Poland: The Congregation of the Sons of Divine Providence in Poland have ordained a...
May 17, 2019
Details: Father Jonathan Morris, a former member of the Legion of Christ who was at...
May 17, 2019
About 10 years ago, I attended the Mass of Thanksgiving of a priest who was...
May 15, 2019
Another amazing vocation story about a married man about to be ordained to the priesthood:...
April 2019
April 30, 2019
Check out the video report below on Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Maryland: Details: Tighter...
April 27, 2019
This is something else. It's working its way around social media and it's irresistible. Enjoy....
April 24, 2019
Some interesting insight from Crux: A declining proportion of Catholics and accelerated growth of Evangelical...
April 14, 2019
Cardinal John Dew of New Zealand wrote a letter to his flock earlier this month: Being...
March 2019
March 24, 2019
Details: A Notre Dame de Grâce man has been charged with attempted murder and assault...
March 01, 2019
A deacon writes: Knowing that you have posted many discussions about diaconate-related questions, I...
February 2019
February 28, 2019
Well, that depends on whom you interview and when. This appeared yesterday, via CNS: The...
February 19, 2019
My friend, blog neighbor and fellow Queens resident Dr. Pat McNamara offers us the long...
February 18, 2019
From The New York Times: The Vatican has confirmed, apparently for the first time, that...
February 18, 2019
It was one of the most famous moments in the early years of John Paul's...
January 2019
January 28, 2019
From CNS: The primary goal of the Vatican's February summit on clerical sexual abuse and...
January 23, 2019
A great vocation story: Speaking to the Italian television network TV2000, a recently ordained Italian...
January 09, 2019
This is great: "Overeating destroyed my body,” Fr. Ryan Rooney says. “At my highest weight...
January 07, 2019
From The Washington Post: The Catholic community Opus Dei in 2005 paid $977,000 to settle...
January 05, 2019
From my Patheos neighbor and friend Father Matthew Schneider, a great witness from a seminarian...
January 03, 2019
Details from CNS: German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising called for change in...
December 2018
December 28, 2018
Details: A conservative Episcopal priest, who is a top administrator in the Tennessee diocese, is leaving...
December 25, 2018
You hear about these things from time to time, but I've never heard of an...
December 24, 2018
Details: A Brooklyn priest killed himself inside a church rectory less than two weeks before...
December 14, 2018
Check out the video below from Detroit: Some thoughts: It's highly unusual for a local...
December 14, 2018
Details: One of the Vatican’s top legal minds has opened the way for a revision...
December 02, 2018
From The Day in New London: A former deacon at Sacred Heart Church in Groton...
November 2018
November 29, 2018
From The National Catholic Register: Some of the seminarians and transitional deacons at the center...
November 29, 2018
The lead paragraph from the AP report on a priest in Sioux City: A Roman Catholic...
November 08, 2018
Here's an insightful and even inspiring analysis on the wearing of the collar — from...
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