Tag: Priests

A trip interstate to celebrate a friend’s anniversary of ordination gave Monica Doumit an insight into what parishioners really think of their parish priest.

From 19-23 August the city of Adelaide played host to the Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy's (ACCC) annual conference. With distinguished guests including Fr Stephen Wang, Rector of the Venerable English College in Rome, the conference left priests inspired to evangelise.

One of the reasons I love doing research is that you find things out, and you can measure them. Sometimes you find things out...

Hollywood is fascinated by these inspiring men and the unique nature of their lives and ministry Despite the scandals of the last 25 years, popular...

Did you know that you are a priest? No, seriously – a real priest? Priests are people who can offer sacrifices to God. They form...

Imagine an Australian diocese in which Fr Youngtrad, a recently ordained priest, phones his bishop - and the bishop answers his own phone. Fr Youngtrad...

Three young men made life-long vows to religious life as Missionaries of God’s Love this month, as the home-grown congregation continues to flourish.

I was chatting with a US-based friend about a recent Church sex scandal there. A priest ordained in 2017 catfished* two teenage boys whose families loved and trusted him. But he was also using the gay dating app Grindr to find teenage males for paid sex.

A priest well known for his success in nurturing vocations to the priesthood as a seminary rector has been named by Pope Francis as a new Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of Sydney.

I was hoping that the recent Plenary Council sessions would grapple with some hard statistical facts about the Church in Australia. This is becoming...

  I promised you some joy this week. But bear with me - it’s all connected with why Catholics need to be different, and why...

A dry spell for priestly vocations in the diocese was emphatically broken with the first multiple ordinations in its history.