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June 2013

June 15, 2013

For Father’s Day: Father-Son Clergy in Kansas!

Details: The ordination of 10 men as permanent deacons in the Diocese of Salina includes...

June 09, 2013

A New Priest Looks Back: “This Year Has Been the Best of My Life…”

My friend and blog neighbor Fr. Michael Duffy marks a milestone: One year ago today...

June 05, 2013

Ordination Update: 8 New Deacons for Arlington

From the Catholic Herald: For the first time since Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde reinstated...

June 05, 2013

On Choosing a Vocation: “Making Yourself is Different Than Producing a Product…”

A little profundity —and a challenge to the world—from David Brooks, in the New York...

June 05, 2013

Ordination Update: 8 New Deacons for Arlington

From the Catholic Herald: For the first time since Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde reinstated...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

A Priest’s Advice to the Newly Ordained

There's a lot of wisdom here—and a lot of it, I think, could apply to...

May 29, 2013

“My Heroes Were Visiting Missionaries…”

That's how Msgr. John E. Kozar, president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA)...

May 23, 2013

Diocese of Worcester Reinstates Diaconate

Details: Bishop McManus is reinstating the permanent diaconate formation program with a new class to...

May 20, 2013

“We Deliver Vocations Which Would Otherwise Be Lost”

From Arkansas comes this profile of an organization doing the invaluable work of helping young...

May 13, 2013

Vocations to diaconate have increased over 40% in Europe and U.S. in past decade

From the Vatican Radio: The number of Catholics globally remains largely unchanged at 1214 million,...

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 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 08, 2013

Pope Francis to nuns: “Be a mother, not an old maid”

From CNS: Pope Francis told 800 superiors of women's orders from around the world that...

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 03, 2013

Theologian: “Allowing women to be deacons would create great confusion for the faithful…”

From Catholic News Agency: Theologian Father Manfred Hauke said recent comments from a German archbishop...

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 28, 2013

Indiana copes with priest shortage

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

April 23, 2013

Ordination update: 18 new deacons for Jefferson City

Photo: Jay Nies/ The Catholic Missourian One of the newly ordained dropped me a line...

April 23, 2013

Ordination update: 18 new deacons for Jefferson City

Photo: Jay Nies/ The Catholic Missourian One of the newly ordained dropped me a line...

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 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 15, 2013

Vatican statement on LCWR: “Pope Francis reaffirmed the program of reform”

From the Vatican website: Today the Superiors of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the...

April 11, 2013

Advice to seminarians: “About that sermon, keep it short…”

This is some sage advice from a Lutheran minister in First Things: First: Sheep have teeth...

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...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

Lovely video: Holy Saturday at the seminary

Here we have a brief but beautiful glimpse at a service this morning at St....

March 30, 2013

How Pope Francis is reforming the priesthood

I wondered earlier this week if the new pontiff might have a profound impact on...

March 21, 2013

God’s army: overflow crowd attends discernment retreat for military chaplains

Very impressive turnout: Twenty-six (26) men from every service branch of the U.S. armed forces...

March 11, 2013

Married priests: “Why such aversion?”

An alert reader sent this my way: another interesting voice, from Sean Connelly, in the...