While the Second Vatican Council gave the Catholic Church a "beautiful" document on the priesthood, "it did not face the fundamental question" of the difference between Catholic and Protestant understandings of ordained ministry, wrote Pope ...
The requirement that most priests in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church be celibate has theological and spiritual foundations and not only practical motivations, said speakers at an international conference on priesthood. Jesus' chastity, poverty ...
A reader asks Monsignor Charles Pope: “I would like to know why priests are not able to marry. Is there going to be a time when they will be married and start to enjoy the ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez shares her response to the latest news about Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill’s resignation from his position as general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after it was reported that he was ...
Michael R. Heinlein, editor of OSV’s website Simply Catholic, writes that the question of loosening the discipline of priestly celibacy should be made with full consultation of the bishops of the Church, and it is ...
I know it. I feel it. The Holy Spirit heard my prayer. Already heartsick after reading the Grand Jury’s report from Pennsylvania on the horrific record of sexual abuse of youth by clergy, within an ...
It happens all the time. You’re out at a social gathering and someone knows you are Catholic. Their curiosity, without fail, prompts them to ask questions that always have nagged at them. Why can’t priests ...
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In honor of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, writer David Werning gives a rundown of the major writings of his pontificate, including four apostolic exhortations and three encyclicals …
The key papal writings of Pope Benedict XVI
In honor of the passing of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, writer David Werning gives a rundown of the major writings of his pontificate
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Editor Father Patrick Briscoe @PatrickMaryOP reflects on the rise in vandalism against Catholic churches and why it is just to seek restitution …
Attacks against our churches are bigotry, pure and simple
In his latest column, Father Briscoe reflects on the rise in vandalism against Catholic churches and why it is just to seek restitution.
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