Defying the current scapegoating and stereotypes, a priest shares his journey and struggle. My Roman collar caused Mrs. H to hesitate. She knew I was gay, but...
Religious life
Feeling called to religious life, many men and women are finding they first need to overcome a few obstacles in their path. Finally, after years of shoving it...
Around the time Karen Lueck entered the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in 1967, the community had decided to forgo its traditional habit. “Many...
The editors interview Father Robert Barron. "For too long we've had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood," laments Father...
Robert Silva, a pastor and spiritual director who has taught at the University of the Pacific and the Catholic University of America, talks about how his...
Our readers have some strong ideas about how to build a better clergy–from training to ordination requirements to personal traits that make a priest...
Having taught in and studied seminaries for 20 years, Katarina Schuth sizes up the changes in today's seminaries and the men they are forming for the...
Celibacy isn't the problem, argues Father Andrew Greeley. It's the lifelong service to the priesthood that scares away young men. I've been doing...
Religious clothing allows Catholics to make a fashion statement about their faith, says a young priest who sports the look that a previous generation put away...
Multiple parish pastoring became an issue in the United States in the late 1980s and early 90s as the number of priests started to decline, according to Mark...
