Cardinal You Heung-sik thanks world’s priests, calling them ‘friends of the Lord’
Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik, Prefect of the Dicastery for Clergy, pens a letter to all priests, deacons, and…
Solomon Islands bishops meet and encourage seminarians
During their first meeting of 2026, the bishops of the Solomon Islands gather with seminarians and formators at…
Large family with 13-year-old in seminary and a baby named Leo, touches pope’s heart
Thirteen-year-old Fernando Bejarano Calvo — the second of seven children — felt the desire to become a priest…
Seventeen Catholic missionaries killed in 2025, 10 of them in Africa
The Vatican’s Fides News Agency releases its annual report on missionaries and pastoral workers killed in the last…
Vietnam’s major seminaries set sights on unified, Christ-centered training model
Nearly 70 seminary educators from across Vietnam meet in Sam Son parish, Thanh Hoa diocese, for the 2025…
Pope Leo XIV: Friendship with Christ is the key to Christian happiness
Cultivating friendship with Christ and experiencing the Master’s closeness and love is vital to happiness for priests and…
Zimbabwe: Scarcity of vocations to the priesthood
The Church in Zimbabwe is grappling with a severe shortage of vocations to the priesthood, with numbers of…
Pope Leo blesses thousands of seminarians gathered in Rome
Pope Leo XIV has blessed more than 2,500 seminarians who have converged in Rome this week. Drawn from…
Pope Leo to seminarians: Be passionate about priestly life
Pope Leo XIV welcomes some 4000 seminarians and formators to the Vatican for their Jubilee, offering them a…
Jubilee of Seminarians, Bishops and Priests Gets Underway in Rome| National Catholic Register
According to the Dicastery for Evangelization, the program, which runs June 23-27, includes prayer, catechesis, concerts, jubilee pilgrimages,…