Ireland starts new 2024 – 2025 school year with 21 new seminarians

Sep 20, 2024 16:17

Elizabeth Owens

“It is truly heartening that 21 men have begun their journey as seminarians across various institutions

The 21-year-old athlete, born in Toledo, Ohio, USA, began the weightlifting sport at 17.

Bishop Onah asked the faithful to support the new priests with their prayers and not interfere in their ministry.

Pope Francis welcomed seminarians from the Major Seminary of Getafe, Spain, to the Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace

help promote vocations by allowing novices to study in their mother tongue

Local Church•Vocations

A Good Year of Vocational Harvests in Some Dioceses of the United States: These Are the Data

This significant increase of Ordinations opens a hopeful future for the Catholic Church in the United States, in the context of a new generational change in the Church

Jun 30, 2024 05:50

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Testimonies•Vocations

A deaf-mute is ordained as a Catholic priest for the first time in Indian history

The 38-year-old member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross graduated from college in Mumbai before embracing the religious life. The new priest told AsiaNews: “My vocation and mission as a priest are to provide all the Sacraments in the Indian Sign Language to all deaf Catholics in India” as well as “support God calling” them to the religious life.

May 31, 2024 10:28

ZENIT Staff

Pope Francis•Rome•Vocations

Pope Francis’ Face to Face Conversation with Young Clergy of Rome: Issues Addressed

Pope Francis holds a meeting with priests of less than 10 years of priestly ordination in the diocese of Rome

May 30, 2024 10:22

ZENIT Staff

Homosexuality•Pope Francis•Vocations

Pope Confirms Benedict XVI: No Gays in Seminaries

At a certain point, speaking of vocations, Pope Francis said to the Bishops: “there is too much fagotery in the Church.” Some of the media added — not to be forgotten is that the meeting was held behind closed doors — that the Pope asked that homosexual seminarians be thrown out of the Seminaries.

May 27, 2024 06:28

Valentina di Giorgio

Good News•Rome•Vocations

Opus Dei gives to the Church 29 new priests from 19 countries

At the end of the ceremony, the Prelate of Opus Dei, Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz, expressed his gratitude and affection for the new priests and their families

May 26, 2024 17:41

ZENIT Staff

Ireland starts new 2024 – 2025 school year with 21 new seminarians

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Jesuits open their first training centre in Bangladesh

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A Good Year of Vocational Harvests in Some Dioceses of the United States: These Are the Data

A deaf-mute is ordained as a Catholic priest for the first time in Indian history

Pope Francis’ Face to Face Conversation with Young Clergy of Rome: Issues Addressed

Pope Confirms Benedict XVI: No Gays in Seminaries

Opus Dei gives to the Church 29 new priests from 19 countries