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May 2013

May 14, 2013

Florida Priest Presides Over Burials for Those No One Else Will Claim—UPDATED

Here's a story about a poignant and prayerful work of mercy most people never hear...

May 13, 2013

Abuse report: 11 “credible allegations” against clergy in 2012

Details: The latest report on child protection in the U.S. Catholic Church found a total...

May 12, 2013

Legion of Christ priest: “What God expects of me now is to care for my child and his mother”

Details: A prominent American priest of the Legion of Christ religious order has decided to...

May 12, 2013

Remembering Fr. Scott Carroll: “He wanted to be a priest”

Here, from the Toledo Blade, is the obituary for the man who was a priest...

May 11, 2013

For Mother’s Day: “She’s my best friend…”

A New Jersey priest has written a song celebrating mothers, and now the video is...

May 10, 2013

Priest dies two days after ordination —UPDATED

A followup to the story I posted the other day on Fr. Scott Caroll. This...

May 08, 2013

Seminarian battling cancer ordained to priesthood

The following email arrived in my in-box tonight, forwarded from a reader in Ohio: I...

May 07, 2013

“Why I wear a biretta”

An explanation from an Episcopal priest: I saw somewhere on Facebook where a priest asked...

May 07, 2013

UPDATE: Massachusetts bishop pleads not guilty to DUI

Details: The leader of a Roman Catholic diocese in Massachusetts charged with driving drunk in...

May 05, 2013

Fugee fallout: Trenton pastor, lay ministers resign

From the Diocese of Trenton website: Bishop David M. O'Connell, C.M., has accepted the resignation...

May 04, 2013

Star search: a scientist who grew up without religion prepares for ordination to the priesthood

The unusual vocation story, from The Leaven newspaper of Kansas City: The vocation stories of...

May 03, 2013

PK: The challenges of being a preacher’s kid

I'm sure there are children of deacons and priests who can relate to this, too....

May 02, 2013

Newark’s Fr. Fugee resigns

Frank Weathers has the scoop: The Roman Catholic priest at the center of a public...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

Embattled chaplain sparks small vocations boom at George Washington University

You probably remember the controversy surrounding this chaplain at George Washington University. Here's something else...

April 30, 2013

Priest collapses, dies while celebrating Mass

From New Zealand: Hundreds of parishioners watched in shock as a Catholic priest died at...

April 29, 2013

Report: priest who admitted to groping teenager continues to work with children

You may remember the story of Newark's Fr. Michael Fugee from February. Now, an update...

April 29, 2013

Chicago priest’s confession: he crossed the border illegally

His story, and why he did it, from the Chicago Tribune: Just days after crossing...

April 28, 2013

Indiana copes with priest shortage

From the Post-Tribune newspaper, which toward the end makes mention of deacons: Early in his...

April 24, 2013

Reading the tea leaves: married priests and women deacons?? —UPDATED

Fr. Michael P. Orsi—a research fellow and scholar at Ave Maria University in Florida— makes...

April 24, 2013

Reading the tea leaves: married priests and women deacons?? —UPDATED

Fr. Michael P. Orsi—a research fellow and scholar at Ave Maria University in Florida— makes...

April 21, 2013

Pope Francis at priestly ordinations: “You are pastors, not functionaries”

To mark the 50th World Day of Prayer for Vocations —which falls every year on...

April 18, 2013

Priest’s accused killer blames it on “bad homilies”

Yikes: An unemployed man, who said he was only trying to teach his elderly priest...

April 17, 2013

Brit boom: ordinations to priesthood higher than in the 1950’s

Some surprising and encouraging news out of England and Wales: New figures for 2012 show...

April 11, 2013

A priest writes: “This is why I wear a collar…”

A couple years ago, when he was a mere seminarian, my blog neighbor Fr. Michael...

April 11, 2013

The movie producer in a collar

Who knew? Details: No sooner had Eric Andrews arrived on the set of “The Lost...

April 10, 2013

Priests and deacons and blessings (oh my!)

With ordination season rapidly approaching, some helpful information from canon lawyer Dr. Ed Peters: 1....

April 10, 2013

Priests and deacons and blessings (oh my!)

With ordination season rapidly approaching, some helpful information from canon lawyer Dr. Ed Peters: 1....

April 07, 2013

Meet Matt Malone, editor of America

I can report from personal experience that Fr. Matt Malone is a very nice man,...

April 05, 2013

Students start blog to support embattled chaplain

This is really quite remarkable. At a secular university, Catholic students have banded together to...

April 02, 2013

Leap of faith: Russia’s parachuting priests!

Now for something completely different, from CNEWA's blog One-to-One: The Russian military unveiled an unlikely...