PHOENIX — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix announced plans Tuesday to create its first full seminary to educate and train future priests locally. The Nazareth Seminary will provide housing and ...

PHOENIX — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix expanded last week with a new seminary near Third and Monroe streets it will use to train future priests. The 54-year-old diocese held a celebration ...

The first four African Americans to be ordained Catholic priests at St. Augustine Seminary in Mississippi in 1934 "stood tall in the midst of segregated times," said retired Bishop J. Terry Steib of ...

In an era of deep divisions in the church, newly ordained priests overwhelmingly lean right in their theology, practices and politics. Newly ordained priests bow toward Archbishop Jerome Listecki near ...

Priests put their hands on the heads of newly ordained priests during an ordination Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 12, 2019. (CNS photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters) ...

The Korean Catholic Church needs to implement revised guidelines for effective priestly formation in all seminaries including establishing an emotional care system and a psychological evaluation model ...

Editor: Commenting on the opening of the papal conclave, Brian Kilmeade of Fox News opined that the Catholic Church needs women priests and married priests to solve its priest shortage. That’s exactly ...