Pope Francis has criticized clerics who are “far from the people.” One solution, writes Stacey Noem of the University of Notre Dame, is to better integrate candidates for the priesthood with lay students.
Ministry
Posted inFaith, News
Synod groups propose an Amazonian rite and new ministries for women
Creating an Amazonian-rite liturgy and new ministries for laypeople, including the ordination of women deacons, are some of the recurring proposals made by small groups at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Breaking Bread on the Road
In rural America, shrinking parishes have to share priests. That’s nothing to fear.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
In Coachella Valley, Catholic Church ministers to indigenous Purépechas
Members of nonprofit Catholic missionary groups have traveled the Eastern Coachella Valley area, seeking to connect with the indigenous Purépecha community.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
When Millennials move in with Nuns
Nuns and Nones, an organization that brings these two groups—both spiritually seeking, both distinctly committed to justice—together for conversation, relationship and even shared housing.
Posted inFaith, Features
When professional Catholics burn out
Working for the church can make it hard to believe in it.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The best advice I can offer new priests
Yes, your life is focused on God but centered by the people God gives you to serve.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The secret history of Catholic caregivers and the AIDS epidemic
Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Jean Vanier, ‘living saint’ who ministered to people with disabilities, dies at 90
Jean Vanier lived the beautiful mystery of our human condition that we need one another, young and old, strong and weak.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The hopes and challenges of priestly celibacy today
For celibate priests, there are three specific and essential elements of formation for sustaining their commitment: They need a meaningful reason for celibacy, they need skills for celibate living, and they need a supportive community.