The ministry of the priest must move beyond the model of exclusive leadership, which leads to the centralization of pastoral ...

In a quiet corner of this Oxfordshire town, the small Catholic Church of St. Teresa of Lisieux, once a local laundry, stands above a narrow roadway, overlooking ancient cottages and tucked-away ...

RED LAKE FALLS, Minn. - Six frequent visitors to the St. Joseph's Catholic Church rectory have a lilt in their voice with their "hello, father" greeting to the priest living there. "They're killing ...

Leo writes that every vocation begins with an encounter with Christ and recalls the Lord’s call, “Follow me” (Mk 1:17). He ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — At a time when the U.S. Catholic Church is grappling with a severe shortage of priests, the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, recently ordained 12 new priests — its second-largest class ...

DENVER — Matthew Book looks forward to being a priest, but not the part about living alone. He prays that his new community might help alleviate some of the isolation priests experience in a world ...

CINCINNATI — Tributes are pouring in as Catholics around the world mourn Pope Francis's death. Those tributes are evident inside Bellarmine Chapel at Xavier University. "In one of his first interviews ...

In the early 1910s, Father Hans Schmidt became the only Roman Catholic priest ever executed in the United States a crime story that still unsettles historians today. Behind his religious vows, Schmidt ...

The Catholic Church — especially in Italy — was profoundly shocked by the news of the death of Father Matteo Balzano, a 35-year-old priest who took his own life on Saturday, July 5. Alarm was ...

Priests for Life is a Roman Catholic pro-life organization based in Staten Island, New York. It functions as a network to promote and coordinate pro-life activism with the primary strategic goal of ...