The current situation of the priesthood: this is what Leo XIV’s letter to priests says about identity, formation, loneliness, desertions, renewal, etc.

Dec 22, 2025 15:27

Jorge Enrique Mújica

His Apostolic Letter, A Fidelity That Generates the Future, released on 22 December and dated 8 December

Local Church•Vocations

Vatican suspends training at major seminary in Congo amid growing division in local Church

The Vatican’s intervention suggests growing concern over the impact of the dispute on ecclesial life

Oct 15, 2025 11:47

ZENIT Staff

Local Church•Vocations

One in five Catholics worldwide is African, as is one in three seminarians: the impressive statistics of African Catholicism

Africa Becomes the Beating Heart of Catholic Growth

Oct 14, 2025 17:14

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Vocations

What keeps pastors in the pulpit, and why do some leave? The study that sheds light on departures by Catholic priests

While the study focuses on Protestant clergy, its insights inevitably raise questions about the Catholic priesthood, where annual departures, though less frequently studied, remain a pastoral concern

Oct 02, 2025 17:19

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Local Church•Vocations

Poland 2025: European leader in number of vocations

This year’s class is made up of 141 diocesan priests and 67 men from religious orders. Tarnów again leads the nation, with 13 ordinations, a figure that in most European dioceses would be unthinkable

Sep 28, 2025 19:42

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Analysis Opinion•Vocations

Measuring the Call: New Study Exposes Strengths and Gaps in U.S. Seminary Assessments

The research also highlights the human complexity of vocation. Respondents were asked how they determine whether a man has sufficiently worked through personal trauma. The answers reveal a pastoral instinct as much as a scientific one: openness to therapy, transparency with formation teams, evidence of growth in prayer and self-awareness, and the ability to integrate past wounds into a mature spiritual life

Sep 28, 2025 19:27

Jorge Enrique Mújica

A simple, concrete, and timely meditation on work based on the nativity scene created by Leo XIV

Congratulations to the employees of the Roman Curia, the Governorate of Vatican City State, and the Vicariate of Rome, together with their families.

2 two fundamental aspects of the life of the Church: mission and communion explained by Leo XIV to the curia in a great speech

Address of the Pope to the Roman Curia on two fundamental aspects of the life of the Church: mission and communion, on the occasion of the annual Christmas greetings

The current situation of the priesthood: this is what Leo XIV’s letter to priests says about identity, formation, loneliness, desertions, renewal, etc.

Mass Attendance Boom: The Case of the US Diocese of Bridgeport

The health (physical, mental, and spiritual) of Australian clergy in 2025: What interesting research reveals

One-third of Catholic clergy in the United Kingdom are Anglican converts: the surprising revelations of an investigation

Surprising research data among French clergy: the younger they are, the more conservative… and happy they are

Nine diocesan priests begin novitiate in the Priestly Fraternities of St. Dominic

Asia’s Oldest Seminary Turns 360 Years: Where Is It?

Vatican suspends training at major seminary in Congo amid growing division in local Church

One in five Catholics worldwide is African, as is one in three seminarians: the impressive statistics of African Catholicism

What keeps pastors in the pulpit, and why do some leave? The study that sheds light on departures by Catholic priests

Poland 2025: European leader in number of vocations

Measuring the Call: New Study Exposes Strengths and Gaps in U.S. Seminary Assessments