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Why Priests Need Hope, and Community, Now More Than Ever, by Anthony Isacco – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Anthony Isacco, National Catholic Register, July 21, 2025

Anthony Isacco, Ph.D., is program director, professor and head of clinical research at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

COMMENTARY: Amid mental-health challenges and growing pastoral burdens, priests need support systems rooted in faith and fraternity.

Tragic news broke this month of an Italian Catholic priest who died by suicide. As a Catholic psychologist who works closely with seminarians and priests, I found the story especially troubling. The priest’s young age — just 35 years old — was jarring, and the grief expressed by his community made clear how deeply he was loved.

In the United States, suicide rates steadily climbed over the past two decades, with a brief dip in 2018-2019. The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 triggered a wave of mental-health problems, contributing to record-high deaths by suicide in 2023 and 2024. …

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