Editor's Note 1: The plaintiff who accused Fr. Michael Mahoney of abusing him as a child has dropped his lawsuit since this story was first published. The plaintiff's attorney said his client stands ...

In the Catholic tradition, devoting one’s life to God by becoming a priest is the ultimate act of service and sacrifice. Following this vocation, many say, is the highest calling one can have. On ...

More and more U.S. Roman Catholic priests are giving up their parishes for secular life. The reasons are many: some have chafed too long under arbitrary authoritarian discipline; others have succumbed ...

How many of us can point to a priest who’s made a difference in our lives, some from long ago and others just recently? It could be an encouraging comment, some advice for direction, or presence at a ...

COMMENTARY: The new ‘National Survey of Catholic Priests’ highlights that bishops need to recognize that the vast majority of their spiritual sons, brothers and co-workers are indeed struggling and ...

Catholics of a certain age may have an image of the young priest, maybe a Jesuit, who introduced himself not as Father O’Reilly but as “Kevin.” Father Kevin — “please, just Kevin” — is the one who ...

The French worker-priest movement, one of the century’s most exciting and most debated religious experiments, finally died last week after long illness. To win back France’s Communist-led, largely ...

Kansas City culture wouldn’t be the same without fall fairs and festivals. But what’s celebrated and by whom has changed a great deal throughout the city’s history. An alarmed reader recently wrote to ...

There’s a crisis in the Roman Catholic Church no one’s talking about. It’s not abuse. It’s not cover-ups. It doesn’t spring from Vatican infighting. It starts much closer to home, with the shepherds ...