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July 2019

July 11, 2019

Rich Beyond Measure: Meet the Priest Who Could Have Been a Millionaire

A remarkable vocation story from Arkansas Catholic: While everyone has to discern their life’s path,...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

Meet Albany’s New Priest, 74, Who Answered God’s Call to ‘Show My People How Much I Love Them’

You may remember the story I posted on him a couple weeks ago. Now, The...

June 25, 2019

Father Grows Best: Behold, Priests With Beards

Why does it appear more priests and seminarians have beards? Glad you asked. Arkansas Catholic...

June 20, 2019

Ordination Update: 14 New Deacons for New York

From Catholic New York: "The Church needs you as it needed those first deacons,” Cardinal...

June 19, 2019

Defying Canon Law, Capuchins Elect Lay Leader

This is a big deal: Capuchins aren’t generally known for being on the Church’s avant-garde, but...

June 17, 2019

Vatican Document for Amazon Synod Proposes Ordaining Married ‘Elders’ as Priests

Details (roughly translated): The Instrumentum laboris outlines an "inculturated liturgy" : "The need for a process of...

June 16, 2019

After 26 Years as a Deacon, 74-Year-Old Becomes a Priest

A great profile of one of Albany's new priests: Mike Melanson preferred Sundays on the...

June 11, 2019

Permanent Deacon to be Ordained a Priest in Albany

From The Diocese of Albany Facebook page: The thought of priesthood could not have been...

June 01, 2019

The Breakaway Church of Peter Njogu: ‘I Am the Solution’

The Washington Post this morning looks at a breakaway church in Kenya, founded by a...

May 2019

May 27, 2019

Amazing: 7 Priests Ordained in 7 Years, All From the Same Parish

How does this parish do it? Is there something in the water? Some answers: Starting...

May 26, 2019

Seminarian Seriously Ill with Cancer Ordained in Hospital

From Poland: The Congregation of the Sons of Divine Providence in Poland have ordained a...

May 21, 2019

Tweet of the Week — Maybe of the Year

This is wonderful, from Cassidy Stinson, the young man who calls himself the Happy Seminarian,...

May 20, 2019

One More Reason to Pray for Priests

In a word: workload. I spotted this story about the ordination of priests last weekend...

May 19, 2019

Ordination Update: 12 New Deacons for Lansing

It happened Saturday. Two of the men will go on to be ordained priests. Details,...

May 17, 2019

A Priest’s First Mass

About 10 years ago, I attended the Mass of Thanksgiving of a priest who was...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

At Mount Saint Mary’s: ‘Catching Problems Before They Become Priests’

Check out the video report below on Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Maryland: Details: Tighter...

April 24, 2019

How Serious is the Priest Shortage in the World’s Largest Catholic Country?

Some interesting insight from Crux: A declining proportion of Catholics and accelerated growth of Evangelical...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

Theologian: ‘There Is No Historical Evidence That…Women Were Ordained as Deacons’

A few people sent me this item late today: Professor Peter Hünermann – a well-connected...

March 19, 2019

Boom: Spain Sees Jump in Ordinations to Priesthood

From CNS: Ordinations to the priesthood in Spain have soared by 24 percent in the...

March 08, 2019

Vatican Stats: Worldwide More Catholics, Bishops, Deacons; Fewer Priests

Catholicism by the numbers: The percentage of Catholics in the world has remained steady, while...

March 04, 2019

Prayer Request: For Angela, a Consecrated Virgin from the Diocese of Brooklyn

I was saddened to learn today that a beautiful soul, Angela Scannapieco, has gone home to...

March 01, 2019

What Happens to a ‘Transitional’ Deacon Who Is Not Ordained a Priest?

A deacon writes: Knowing that you have posted many discussions about diaconate-related questions, I...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Will the Amazon Synod Discuss Married Priests?

Well, that depends on whom you interview and when. This appeared yesterday, via CNS: The...

February 05, 2019

How Can You Help a Priest? Here’s Some Advice

Father John Hollowell posted this on his blog On This Rock, and it tackles some...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

WATCH: Orlando woman consecrates her life to virginity

From the Diocese of Orlando website: Marianne Cano walked down the aisle of St. James...

January 30, 2019

LISTEN: A widowed deacon talks about his journey to the priesthood

Here's something great: an interview by Iowa Catholic Radio's Jon Leonetti with my pal Deacon...

January 28, 2019

Pope on plane: ‘My decision is: no optional celibacy’ for priests

From CNS: The primary goal of the Vatican's February summit on clerical sexual abuse and...

January 23, 2019

The 71-year-old grandfather who is also a priest: ‘The Lord called me, grabbed me by the hair, but I ran away’

A great vocation story: Speaking to the Italian television network TV2000, a recently ordained Italian...

January 09, 2019

Want to lose weight in 2019? Let this priest show you how he did it.

This is great: "Overeating destroyed my body,” Fr. Ryan Rooney says. “At my highest weight...

January 05, 2019

Why become a priest now? ‘I want to be a medic on the battlefield of life’

From my Patheos neighbor and friend Father Matthew Schneider, a great witness from a seminarian...