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The Unspoken Trial of the Orphaning of Our Priests, by Kevin Wells – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Photo by Ramses Sudiang on Unsplash. A priest praying

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, Oct. 16, 2025

Kevin Wells’s latest book, Coached By the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney was just released by Scepter. His memoir, The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family was released by Ignatius Press last autumn. For more information on his books, writing, and speaking, visit kevinwells.org.

A type of bishopric anti-fatherhood has led countless priests in America to live out vocations tainted by fear, torment, and silent despair.

Crisis editor Eric Sammons has made written and spoken pleas for laity calm in the aftermath of Pope Leo XIV’s odd ice-block blessing and refusal to condemn Cardinal Blase Cupich’s decision to award a pro-abortion politician with a lifetime achievement honor. Even on gasket-blowing days like yesterday, when the Chicago-native pontiff promoted his fellow Chicagoan Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State, Sammons’ call for calm is as wise as it is necessary.

But why?

The Roman Catholic Church is facing a spiritual epidemic unlike any it has ever known; it is as large—and mostly unrecognized —as any crisis in today’s American Catholic Church: Beneath the weight of what might best be described as a priestly anti-fatherhood episcopate—bishops who relate to their priests not as spiritual fathers, but as absent or even abusive ones—countless priests in America are left to live their vocations in silent despair. …

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