A comprehensive study polling thousands of Catholic priests found that new clerics identifying as politically "liberal" or theologically "progressive" have "all but vanished" from seminaries in ...

Part-time priests The most common types of priests were called 'wab' or 'lector'. These priests were often in charge of funerals. They are usually pictured reciting prayers or carrying offerings for ...

Pope Leo XIV arrives to celebrate an ordination Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican as part of the Jubilee of Priests, Friday, June 27, 2025.

This year’s class of new priests is the second largest in the diocese’s 50-year history. The reasons behind that success “are a little bit mysterious,” said the Rev. Michael Isenberg, the ...

Priests ordained since 2010 “are clearly the most conservative cohort of priests we’ve seen in a long time,” said Brad Vermurlen, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of St ...