Father Daniel J. Roberts was joined by family, friends, fellow priests, bishops and seminarians as he celebrated his first ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — At a time when the U.S. Catholic Church is grappling with a severe shortage of priests, the Diocese of ...

The Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, recently ordained 12 new Catholic priests in a joyful Mass at its cathedral. It's the ...

They are a day away from becoming Catholic priests, rehearsing for their ordination Mass under the gothic cathedral’s arches.

“Only two men applied to seminary last year to be diocesan priests,” Father George Sears, director of vocations for the archdiocese, told CNA. “As far as I know, that’s the lowest number ...

Engurait, who was also the diocesan vicar general and served as pastor of St. Bridget Parish since 2017, was ordained a priest on May 25, 2013, after entering seminary in the diocese in 2007 at ...

Kunz, a Madelia native who comes from a family that includes “three nuns and a bunch of priests,” will be retiring this month after 49 years in the priesthood. ... ESCAPING TO SEMINARY.

“Here at the seminary, we have a community with scheduled hours, but diocesan priests are almost like hermits because you’re out there, sometimes on your own, and they need to be rooted in ...

Seven of the new priests studied at the Rome diocesan seminary while four of them attended the Rome Redemptoris Mater Seminary, which is run by the diocese and the Neocatechumenal Way.

A Bond Forged in Seminary. Riding and Hamm met in 1962, when they were just 13 years old and entered Father Judge Mission Seminary in Monroe, Va.

In 1978, around 9,020 men were enrolled in the seminary and studying to become a priest. But by 2004, the numbers had fallen to 4,553 men, according to figures provided by the diocese.