The pioneering path of Augustus Tolton, the first Black Catholic priest in the US – born into slavery, he’s now a candidate for sainthood

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

Go-to priest, who ‘built the Catholic heart of Utah,’ dies after a life of service

Monsignor Terrence Fitzgerald, vicar general under four Utah bishops and one of the most influential Catholic priests in the ...
National Catholic Register

Cardinal Arinze Shares Memories of Priest Who Could Become Nigeria’s First Saint

The cardinal was baptized at the age of 9 by Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, a Nigerian priest known for his holiness, ...
Willamette Week

“Against the Current” Explores the Life of Father Tom Oddo

Tyler Bieber’s new biography of the gay priest and University of Portland president unfolds during a period of upheaval for ...
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Meet the men who just became Catholic priests in Virginia

ARLINGTON, Va. — At a time when the U.S. Catholic Church is grappling with a severe shortage of priests, the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, recently ordained 12 new priests — its second-largest class ...
Catholic StandardOpinion

'No one here is too young to be a light,’ priest tells youth at Mass for Life

Father Danny Morrison, a parochial vicar at the Church of the Little Flower Parish in Bethesda, Maryland, delivers the homily ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Meet the men who just became Catholic priests in Virginia

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — At a time when the U.S. Catholic Church is grappling with a severe shortage of priests, the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, recently ordained 12 new priests — its second-largest ...