Priestly vocations in England and Wales: data pointing to either stabilization or decline

Dec 24, 2025 19:40

Elizabeth Owens

Priestly Ordinations. Photo: Cathopic

Good News•Local Church•Vocations

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

The General Regional Seminary College, today known as Tinggi Katolik Seminary, was founded by the visionary Bishops Pierre Lambert de la Motte and François Pallu of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP), initially with the humble name of St. Joseph Seminary.

Oct 19, 2025 06:41

Rafael Llanes

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

Pope Leo XIV “responds” to Trump’s threat regarding Iran’s extinction: here is what he said

The Pope’s remarks echoed and reinforced his Easter message delivered during the Urbi et Orbi on April 5, where he had already called on those with the power to wage war to lay down their arms and choose dialogue

Two interpretations of the empty tomb, only one to choose: Pope Leo XIV’s reflection

Address on the occasion of the Regina Coeli prayer on Monday, April 6, 2026

Priestly vocations in England and Wales: data pointing to either stabilization or decline

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