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This item, out of Baltimore, has to be one of the more unusual vocation stories of this ordination season: This year, about 440 men will be ordained into the priesthood, including 62-year-old Deacon Greg Rapisarda. Deacon Rapisarda currently conducts Mass with his son, Father John Rapisarda. Two years ago, Deacon Rapisarda said he had to…

It isn’t easy to tell people these days you’re going to be a priest. But that doesn’t seem to have dampened the zeal of men at a seminary in Rome, according to the BBC: It seems, despite a scandal that has been building for years, that there are many who still receive the calling. Like…

“For too long we’ve had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood. We almost embrace mediocrity as the norm. What’s the difference between a doctor and a priest? As someone once answered long ago, there really is no comparison: one deals with matters of life and death; the other just deals with the health…

Whether we realize it or not, the figure of a Catholic priest has long played a starring role in the movies. CNS’s David DiCerta explains: In 1915, D.W. Griffith followed up his controversial silent classic “Birth of a Nation” with the ambitious epic “Intolerance,” which prominently featured a Catholic priest administering last rites to a…
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