In his weekly general audience Pope Francis continued his catechesis on the Sacraments, devoting today's discourse to those who receive Holy Orders, referring to it as a vocation of "service." "Those ...

A priest lays hands on Deacon Kieran Halloran during his ordination to the priesthood at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York City June 14, 2025. Now-Father Halloran was one of five Jesuits of the U ...

As June is traditionally the ‘ordination season’ for most U.S. dioceses, the guidelines from the Thomistic Institute on holy orders couldn’t have come at a better time. Above, priests from the Rio ...

And here are some reasons why. For the first time in history, we have a gender-balanced papal commission. When has that ever happened before? While Vatican spokesperson Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi ...

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Q. I am currently incarcerated in federal prison. My question may seem strange, but I am wondering whether it would ever be possible for an ex-convict, a felon, to be accepted into holy orders. When I ...

The Catholic Church does not have a general policy of denying funeral rights to all sinners, but this bishop believes that gay and bisexual people are an exception. A Catholic bishop in Springfield, ...

VATICAN CITY — The title of the document is a mouthful but the message is clear. The Vatican's new document is called: “Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with Regard to Persons ...

(RNS) Most of today’s American Catholic parents don’t go to Mass, provide any Catholic education for their children or stress the basic sacraments beyond baptism. And yet a new study of these families ...