Catholic Church

By Father Bryce Sibley, EWTN News - During my 11 years of experience as a priest and chaplain at a dynamic Catholic college campus ministry, I was blessed to be able to walk with nearly 100 young men and women who entered formation for either priesthood or religious life... While so often we use similar phrases to describe the generalized process of vocational discernment, I found that there are distinct differences between how men and women experience and discern a priestly or religious call.

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - Americans after the Civil War had been well trained in a very simple ethical inference. Not everyone accepted it. Not everyone felt its force consistently. Yes, there was a lot of hypocrisy and contrary social pressure. “Prejudice” still held sway. But still the skeleton of the logical inference was in place. All human beings a created equal. All are endowed with the right to life.

By Jonah McKeown, CNA - The new analysis of a study that claims to be the largest national survey of Catholic priests conducted in more than 50 years has found, among other things, that priests describing themselves as “progressive” are practically going “extinct” among U.S. seminary graduates, with the vast majority of young ordinands describing themselves as conservative and orthodox... Conducted by The Catholic Project, a research group at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., the newest release focuses on polarization, generational dynamics, and the ongoing impact of the sexual abuse crisis.