They have to realize it’s the like the end of a movie. You can’t stay in the theater when the picture has ended. It’s done.’’ ...

A Spanish bishop rebuked comments made by some priests on a weekly internet program about praying for Pope Francis to die as soon as possible. The priests later apologized. Archbishop Francisco Cerro ...

FILE - Pope Francis meets a group of nuns during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, on Aug. 30, 2023. Pope Francis urged leaders of religious orders on Monday July 15 ...

Priests in an eastern Indian region have resolved to increase their effectiveness as pastors by praying the breviary and consulting laypeople in preparing their homilies. The resolution emerged from a ...

Six priests are facing “corrective measures” for a mock prayer that Pope Francis “go to heaven as soon as possible” during a conservative-leaning gathering aired on YouTube. Archbishop Francisco Cerro ...

LUDLOW, Mass. — On Jan. 1, 2005, the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., initiated adoration for vocations in a chapel at Christ the King parish in Ludlow. The 350 people who signed up for 24-7 adoration ...

Seoul Archdiocese in South Korea has seen a revival of faith ever since it designated priests to conduct “the Liturgy of the Hours” at midday on all weekdays inside its cathedral together with lay ...

CARA sought survey responses from the 458 seminarians to be ordained this year. It received 334 responses, a response rate of 73%. Responses came from ordinands at 116 U.S. dioceses and 24 different ...

Normally, priests pray for their parishioners. This year, one school set out to reverse the equation. "The Year of the Priest," a yearlong program at Mary Queen of Angels Regional Catholic School in ...

. . . I suspect your priest was thinking of the four categories we traditionally use to describe different kinds of prayer: adoration, contrition, thanksgiving and petition.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged religious orders on Monday to work and pray harder for new priests and nuns to join, as he acknowledged the congregations’ futures are at risk with the numbers of men ...