Hundreds of parish priests from around the world will spend three days praying and talking about experiences of synodality and discernment in parishes and dioceses before having a two-hour dialogue with Pope Francis May 2.
The priests, chosen by their national bishops' conference
The success of the Synod of Bishops on synodality will much depend on also including parish priests in the process, said Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington.
Of the more than 360 bishops, religious and laypeople who participated in the first assembly at
The pope met April 4 at the Vatican with Latin American priests doing graduate studies in Rome and living at the Mexican, Brazilian and Latin American colleges in the city.
Referring to the sixth station of the cross, Pope Francis said that
Father Joseph Friend of the Diocese of Little Rock, Ark., and Father Artur Bubnevych of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix share their thoughts ahead of participating in a delegation of 300 parish priests who will share their thoughts with the synod
A Florida priest and Grammy-winning recording artist has been restored to ministry after accusations of alleged sexual misconduct with a minor were retracted by the accuser.
Father Jerome Kaywell, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Punta Gorda, Florida, "has been returned to ministry,
Five U.S. priests will travel to Rome in April to share their experiences of parish life with the ongoing Synod of Bishops on synodality.
The group -- selected by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as part of a 300-member worldwide delegation --
Piarist Father Mario Vizcaíno, who for almost 40 years promoted Hispanic ministry in the United States, was "the soul of Hispanic ministry."
The founder and director of the Southeast Pastoral Institute, known as SEPI, is being remembered after his Feb. 13 death for
The Nashville Diocese announced Feb. 9 that Father Juan Carlos Garcia, a former associate pastor at St. Philip Catholic Church in Franklin, who was ordained to the priesthood less than four years ago, has been indicted by a grand jury on multiple
A Florida priest and Grammy-winning recording artist has been placed on administrative leave due to alleged sexual misconduct with a minor a decade ago.
Father Jerome Kaywell, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Punta Gorda, Florida, has been removed from his duties pending
"We can live our priestly ministry well only immersed in the priestly people from whom we come," the pope told about 1,000 priests and bishops from some 60 countries Feb. 8 during a conference on the continuing education and formation of priests.
"This