Pope Francis discussed in a Jan. 30 audience with seminarians and formators from the ecclesiastical province of Valencia in Spain how his mother put up quite a bit of resistance to his entering the ...

Pope Francis lamented that ‘a sufficient grounding in literature’ is not a standard part of priestly formation. But some seminaries in the U.S. and abroad seem to be bucking that trend. Seminarians ...

A small Catholic college in Lander, Wyoming, has launched a new program that challenges seminarians with wilderness experiences to strengthen their faith, vocations, and pastoral skills as eventual ...

Catholic journalists know that discernment stories are popular because they give readers hope. And they often follow a pattern: They usually include a "God moment" in which the subject, through a ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV kicked off a weeklong celebration of Catholic clergy Tuesday by encouraging seminarians to be joyful and honest, offering an uplifting message after Pope Francis frequently ...

CHATSWORTH, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It's a head-to-head battle on the basketball court; a church rivalry that pits Catholic priests against young men studying to enter the priesthood. And while both ...

The text from Stephen Parisi's fellow seminarian was ominous: Watch your back. Parisi, dean of his class of seminarians in the Buffalo Diocese, and another classmate had gone to seminary officials ...

The 156 young men who call St. Charles Borromeo Seminary home are deeply aware of both the sacred and the profane. Seminarian Jordan Evans prays the rosary in a chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary ...

The Vocations Tree display at St. John Neumann Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland invites parishioners to select a prayer card and pray for a seminarian during Lent. The initiative began at the parish ...