Josh Brooks, a native of Delaware County in metro Philadelphia, dreamed of following in the footsteps of his idol LeBron ...

More men are considering the priesthood, the Catholic Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, Alphonsus ‘Phonsie’ Cullinan, has said ...

My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very ...

The decline in the number of priests, seminarians, and new vocations to the priesthood in the United States appears to be more pronounced in parishes where priests serve more parishioners ...

The Priesthood Is a Heroic Vocation Consider the case of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan who resisted the Nazis.

As Mark Rohlena of the Napa Institute reflected, we must never take our priests for granted. ‘We must pray for them every day ...

Dinter writes of some three decades as a priest, and why he left, as eloquent witness to a larger institutional struggle. To Catholics weary of scandal headlines, he offers an intelligent look at ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. priestly ordinations have been steady in recent years, but they need to increase significantly if they are to replace the large number of priests retiring or dying, says a ...

Everyone must tend his own vocation and work, he wrote. But Luther also rejected the idea of mediation in the spiritual realm and, with it, priesthood and religious life.

Like many Roman Catholic men who feel called to the priesthood, the Rev. Jim Hearne wrestled with whether ordination was right for him. The youngest of seven in an Irish Catholic family, he saw the… ...

Men preparing for priesthood have increased in both numbers and diversity during the past five years, a trend captured in a video released today by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles' Office for ...

The study found that there are fewer new vocations in large dioceses where priests do not have a chance to get to know their parishioners.