Priesthood

How Fr Daniel Seward led us home

A former parishioner recalls the Oxford Oratory priest whose patient teaching helped shape her Catholic faith
Hannah Chegwyn

Why the Church cannot ordain women

Arguments for women’s ordination often assume a power the Church says she does not possess and has never claimed to exercise
Luke Collins

New Channel 4 series explores forbidden love between nun and priest

Falling, a new drama for Channel 4, presents the violation of priestly and religious vows as the core tension of a forbidden love story
The Catholic Herald

Bishops renew appeal for priestly vocations

New campaigns and pastoral appeals for vocations are emerging across England and Wales as some dioceses face another year without ordinations
The Catholic Herald

The Ordinariate at fifteen: rumours and reality

As the Ordinariate marks its anniversary, celebration gives way to clarification of its liturgical identity following unfounded rumours
Fr Mark Elliott Smith

Out with the ‘feel-good’, in with tradition

Parish life is taking on a renewed sense of reverence, as recent data points to a more conservative generation of younger priests
Jacqueline O'Hara

Pope Leo XIV to ordain eight men in Rome on vocations day

Eight candidates for the Diocese of Rome are due to be ordained by Pope Leo XIV at St Peter’s Basilica on the World Day of Prayer for Vocations
The Catholic Herald

Altar boys are back

As the Church reflects on the decision to allow girls to serve at the altar in the 1990s, some parishes are seeing a renewed emphasis on boys as servers
Fr Dwight Longenecker

New report offers portrait of the men set to be ordained in the US in 2026

Research released with the US bishops provides a statistical snapshot of the seminarians due to be ordained in the United States this year
Thomas Colsy

Heralds of the Gospel ordain 26 priests and 31 deacons

The Heralds of the Gospel ordain 26 priests on Divine Mercy Sunday and 31 deacons the day before, in first ordinations since 2019
The Catholic Herald