Priests/Priesthood

“To give a true homily is to share faith,” and artificial intelligence “will never be able to share faith,” the pope added.

“The high moment in any day is my celebrating Mass. And you stop to think, ‘What am I doing here?’ You can’t beat this! This is the tops!”

“Our appreciation” for efforts supporting the religious worker visas program “cannot be overstated,” said the USCCB’s president and its migration chair.

The letter, released Dec. 22, marked the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s decrees on priestly formation and on the life and ministry of priests.

Priests feel “faithful to their calling,” useful, “in their place,” and generally “at peace,” if less idealistic than when they began.

Seminary formation was already notoriously long and recently, an additional year has been added: the propadeutic year. Yet few are complaining.

Attorneys for the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, have moved to voluntarily dismiss a religious visa lawsuit they had filed against the federal government for religious workers.

Father Jan Swierc, rector of the Salesian parish in Krakow, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941, taken to prison and then transferred to Auschwitz.

The Vatican’s missionary news agency shared statistics about the Catholic population, church personnel and the works they are engaged in.

The study was released Oct. 14 by The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America, and serves as a follow-up to its landmark 2022 national study.