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by bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | celibacy, Celibate, Celibate way, divine law, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The requirement that most priests in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church be celibate has theological and spiritual foundations and not only practical motivations, said speakers at an international conference on priesthood.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 14, 2022 | celibacy, lead, News, Pontifical Gregorian University, Pope Francis, Prayer, priesthood, Vatican | 0 |
Ahead of a high-profile conference on the priesthood, prominent Jesuit canonist Father Gianfranco Ghirlanda has cautioned against the risks of social media and excessive attachment to outward devotions, stressing the importance of service.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | celibacy, Essay, Features, fidelity, Jesus Christ, Marriage, News, Pope St. John Paul II, priesthood, Vocations | 0 |
A number of years ago, my spiritual director, a priest, went on a leave of absence because of various troubles. He was considering leaving the priesthood. I wrote a heartfelt letter to offer my thoughts […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 12, 2021 | Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Catholic news, celibacy, Congregation for Bishops, News, News Briefs, priesthood, Theology, viri probati, Women in the Church | 0 |
Vatican City, Apr 12, 2021 / 07:00 am America/Denver (CNA). Cardinal Marc Ouellet announced Monday that the Vatican will host a theological symposium on the priesthood that will touch on questions raised in recent synods, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2020 | celibacy, Masculinity, News, priesthood, Those Catholic Men | 0 |
As someone who sees perennial bachelorhood as a societal sickness, recommending Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry might seem counterproductive. Jayber, Berry’s main character in the novel, is a small-town barber that finds himself an “ineligible bachelor,” as he puts it. He never marries, never has kids, and in that way is “free” of the burdens […]
by bcadmin | Mar 19, 2020 | Amazon synod, Benedict XVI, Cardinal Robert Sarah, celibacy, Church, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Few books have caused so much controversy even before they were published than did From the Depths of Our Hearts, a new defense of clerical celibacy in the Roman Church by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Robert Cardinal Sarah. On January 14, Benedict’s private secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, told the Italian news agency ANSA that, […]
by bcadmin | Mar 16, 2020 | #metoo movement, Anti-Catholicism, Art & Culture, Cardinal Robert Sarah, celibacy, Featured, H.G. Wells, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
The #MeToo movement has finally reached Rome, and the wisdom of priestly celibacy is being hotly questioned. As it happens, H.G. Wells questioned it just as hotly nearly a century ago, and along many of the same lines. Though his denouncements of the Catholic Church and her priesthood have been largely forgotten, it is his […]
by bcadmin | Mar 5, 2020 | 2020 election, Bishop Georg Bätzing, California, celibacy, Germany, lead, News, News Analysis, synodality, women priests | 0 |
Germany has become to Church politics what California is on the American scene, meaning a strongly blue state which tends to favor the most progressive choice on any menu.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 20, 2020 | Archbishop Fulton Sheen, celibacy, Jesus Christ, News, priesthood, The Dispatch | 0 |
Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen could not recall a time in his life when he did not want to be a priest. At his First Communion, he prayed that one day he would be ordained […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 14, 2020 | Amazon, celibacy, Church News, Deacons, Diaconate, Exhortation, Featured, News, Official 1P5 Podcast, ordination, Priests, Synod, Tim Gordon, Videos, Women | 0 |
On this episode of the podcast, Steve and Tim Gordon of Rules for Retrogrades break down the initial reactions to Querida Amazonia, the just-released post-synodal apostolic exhortation from the Amazon synod. If you enjoy this show, please remember to subscribe […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 13, 2020 | Amazon synod, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, celibacy, Church, Featured, News, Pachamama, Pope Francis, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Yesterday, the Holy Father did something completely unexpected: nothing at all. In his long-awaited exhortation on the Amazon Synod, Querida Amazonia, we find the clearest insight into Pope Francis’s thinking on the vocations crisis, both in the Amazon and across the Western world. His solution is not to do away with clerical celibacy. It is […]
by bcadmin | Feb 12, 2020 | Amazon synod, Apostolic Exhortation, celibacy, Climate change, News, Pope Francis, Querida Amazonia | 0 |
By Courtney Mares / Catholic News Agency Pope Francis published his response to the Vatican’s 2019 Amazon synod in an apostolic exhortation Wednesday. Despite widespread speculation following the synod, the pope does not call for […]
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