Priest collar

"What's with the collar?” asked a UCC colleague. “Did you lose a bet?” I smiled and explained that this was my Lenten discipline: wearing a collar for 40...

Preacher

Msgr. Charles M. Mangan & Father Gerald E. Murray. “Why a priest should wear his Roman collar.”

Roman collar

Confession: I have a “thing” for priests. I have a prayer list for priests that’s a mile long, and I find myself, every so often, just praying like crazy for some poor Father Someone-or-Other who’s struck my fancy. It’s been a true exploration of my understanding of spiritual motherhood, and it has led me to […]

For the first thousand or so years of the Chirch, priests would commonly marry and have children. The first pope himself, Saint Peter, had a wife and most likely children. How did the priestly vow of celibacy evolve to be such an ingrained part of Catholic tradition?

Irish man Vincent Doyle, who was fathered by a priest, argues that the "dispositions and attitudes" towards the marginalized have been "enacted into legislation" in Ireland. Doyle is the founder of Coping International, a support resource for people fathered by clergy.

In an effort to equip future priests to better encounter the mass media, one seminary in Rome now provides a hands-on workshop in social communications.