CARA said that the 2024-25 college seminary enrollment stood at 840, down 6% from 889 the previous academic year.
Priesthood
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Podcast: We need to talk about ‘hot priests’
This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and guest host Sebastian unpack the trend of “hot priests” on social media with Maggie Phillips, a contributing writer for Tablet Magazine.
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Ronald Rolheiser on the spirituality of ‘sticking with it’ and priestly celibacy
Father Rolheiser’s approach helps us see celibacy not simply as an ascetic practice for the sake of denying ourselves but as intentional solidarity with the loneliest people in the world.
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Leaders of men’s religious orders discuss fraternity and faith at annual assembly
Acceptance of changing tides was a major theme at the recent Conference of Major Superiors of Men National Assembly.
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Pope Leo offers advice to seminarians around the world: Don’t be afraid of your feelings and reject hypocrisy
“Keeping our gaze on Jesus, we must learn to give a name and voice even to sadness, fear, anguish, indignation, bringing everything into relationship with God,” Pope Leo said.
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The story of the first quadriplegic Catholic priest on the road to sainthood
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley are joined by Robert Hagan, O.S.A., to discuss the case for the canonization of Bill Atkinson, O.S.A., an Augustinan friar who was the first quadriplegic ordained in the Catholic Church.
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Pope Leo asks newly ordained priests to be signs of reconciliation in the church and world
“It is not important to be perfect, but it is necessary to be credible,” the pope said in his homily at the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Father sleuths best: Why priest-detectives make for good fiction
The genre of the crime-solving priest or religious might be a niche one, but it’s been around on the page and the screen for more than a century.
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Review: Father Charles Strobel’s life of servant leadership
There is joy and heartbreak in Father Charles Strobel’s memoir, ‘The Kingdom of the Poor,’ but mostly joy.
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Advice to new priests hoping to change a parish: go slow and listen
And remember, it’s not about you.