An Unstable Clergy
If bishops and priests were treated like rooted, stable shepherds of one particular flock, rather than middle management who may be promoted for good behavior, perhaps we would see a serious shift in saintly, courageous behavior.
A Shepherd in a Land of Martyrs
Fr. Alex Mugalaasi, the 41-year-old spiritual formator for Uganda’s five major seminaries, lets Our Lady illuminate his path to spiritually form Uganda’s future priests, some of whom will one day serve in parishes in the United States.
A System Perfectly Designed to Produce a Priestly Crisis
The alarming crisis in the priesthood is less a reflection upon individual priests, and much more a condemnation of the redesigned formation of priests following Vatican II.
Seminaries, Blood Oaths, and Manly Priests
How well are seminaries doing in forming the priests we need to reform the Church—one dominated by a lavender mafia?
On Reading Literature: Thoughts for Pope Francis
Pope Francis recently wrote a letter on the role of literature in priestly formation, but a former associate dean of a Catholic seminary thinks it should have gone deeper.