That’s the idea that kicks off this compelling look at priests serving as high school chaplains in Arizona. It’s a message more and more young people need to hear. Take a look: Holiness is possible. That’s the message Jesuit Father Kevin Dilworth left Xavier College Preparatory’s 280 seniors with at their May 3 Baccalaureate Mass.…

It will happen in upstate New York, as another former minister takes advantage of the “Pastoral Provision.” From CNA: As former Protestant minister Scott Caton prepares for his ordination as a Catholic priest in 2011, his wife and six children are prayerfully offering their support. As a priest, he hopes to focus on reconciling men…

The other day, in the Boston Globe, former priest and current author James Carroll had this to say about celibacy: The Catholic scandal has laid bare an essential pathology that is unique to the culture of clericalism, and mandatory celibacy is essential to it. Immaturity, narcissism, misogyny, incapacity for intimacy, illusions about sexual morality —…

Some months back, I posted on the capital campaign underway at the Trappist Monastery of the Holy Spirit down in Georgia. Now this development has made the local news. Take a look: Father Methodius Telnack has lived on the grounds of the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers for 61 years. When he first…

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