An up-close look at the state of our priests

The costs of clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church are impossible to quantify. It has been 20 years since that wave of news broke over the Church in the United States. And it has been 20 years since the American bishops

Do priests make a vow of poverty?

A reader asks,: “As Catholics, we are all aware of a priest’s vow of poverty. However, are there limits to how the Church defines it and also its limits? For example, many priests live communally, but are they actually paid a salary?

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