23 luglio 2026
Beyond Obedience: What Maturity for the Priesthood Really Means
A vocation does not remove personal vulnerabilities. To become priests capable of free and healthy relationships, responsibility and a serene embrace of celibacy, a…
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12 luglio 2026
The Question No One Has the Right to Ask: Seminaries, Sexual Orientation and the Celibacy the Church Forgot
Under the guise of discernment, some superiors violate seminarians’ privacy and turn sexual orientation into a presumption of guilt.
12 giugno 2026
“The priest who isolates himself fades away”: Leo XIV writes to the clergy on the Feast of the Sacred Heart
On the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which coincides with the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests, the Pope signs a message built entirely…
12 maggio 2026
Vatican, sex and power: the real issue behind the obsession with priests’ private lives
From asymmetrical relationships to addictions, from careers built through co-option to the loneliness of the clergy: the problem is not the priest’s private life, but…
10 maggio 2026
The Church and the ignored violin
Joshua Bell’s experiment also challenges our communities: how many priests, lay people and young people are ignored because the system does not know how to recognise…
09 maggio 2026
Lace and poison. The small but toxic clerical faction Leo XIV has begun to push to the margins
Tradition is not the problem; its distortion into identity, power and retaliation is. Leo XIV has begun to take space away from that small but corrosive clericalism…
23 aprile 2026
The erotic fixation seeping into the "sacristies"
The prurient fascination that attaches itself to certain ecclesial affairs points to a far deeper failure: the inability to conceive of the human person as anything…
22 aprile 2026
Young priests, old labels: how the Church is mortifying its new vocations
Amid ageing presbyteries, ideological categories well past their sell-by date and mitres that would rather anaesthetise conflicts than face them, many young priests are…
23 marzo 2026
What sort of priest for today’s Church?
From a cultic understanding of separation to the Gospel logic of proximity: the issue today directly affects formation, authority, and the quality of ecclesial…
05 marzo 2026
Life after the seminary: the real test begins
Between parish life, solitude and growing responsibilities, ongoing formation becomes decisive again: prayer, study, affective maturity and fraternity as a bulwark…
03 marzo 2026
From the sacramental sign to the logic of consensus: the shift proposed by Study Group 4
The Study Group 4 Report increases the weight of consultation and obscures the doctrine of sacred power.
28 febbraio 2026
Leo XIV warns priests and seminarians against trees that “die standing”.
“A supernatural gaze” and the practice of God’s presence at the heart of the address: to young men in formation the Pope points to the root of priestly fruitfulness and…
22 dicembre 2025
Apostolic Letter. Leo XIV: “The seminary must be a school of affections.” Social media? “All things are lawful for me. Yes, but not all are beneficial”.
Leo XIV writes an Apostolic Letter sixty years after the conciliar decrees on priestly formation, and on the ministry and life of presbyters.
31 ottobre 2025
The tables turn in the curia: another of Pope Francis’s loyalists falls
After years of tensions and blocked dossiers, Leo XIV puts an end to a season marked by personal ambitions and hidden powers within the Sacred Palaces. The return home…
24 ottobre 2025
The Italian magazine “Jesus” forgets that the seminary is not a laboratory
An article in the Italian magazine Jesus set out to explain the crisis of the priesthood — but perhaps it only revealed how deeply the Church struggles to recognize…
19 ottobre 2025
The fetish for the “problematic.” This is how the seminaries have lost their vocation.
In the seminaries, they select those most inclined to submission , not those truly called . It’s a system that prefers obedience over freedom , dependence over maturity…
14 ottobre 2025
The Man Behind the Cassock: Henri Nouwen’s Wounded Priest
In The Wounded Healer , Dutch theologian Henri J.M. Nouwen restores to the priest his most human and authentic face : not a functionary of the sacred nor a…
20 luglio 2025
Invisible Criteria: the superior does not discern, he rewards
When the episcopate renounces discernment and takes refuge in co-optation
12 luglio 2025
“I no longer call you servants”: Friendship, Vocation, and the fragile art of staying human
From the Nicomachean Ethics to the Gospel of John: why no Christian can — truly — live alone
05 luglio 2025
What do we expect from the priest?
Between disembodied spiritualisms and power dynamics , the ministry is emptied of its humanity . And when a priest dies , the Church remains silent — or worse: it…
04 luglio 2025
Ordained for being likeable, rejected for being disliked
The priesthood reduced to a clerical casting, where it is not God who decides, but the personal taste of the rector in charge.
29 giugno 2025
Synodality? Random appointments and no discernment: dioceses run on chaos
When synodality is reduced to a last-minute phone call.
27 giugno 2025
Leo XIV to the new priests: Love, Prayer, and total dedication
Pope Leo XIV ordains thirty-two new priests in St Peter’s Basilica
26 giugno 2025
Leo XIV to priests: “Men capable of loving, listening, praying, and serving together”
The Holy Father Leo XIV to the participants of the International Meeting of Joyful Priests – “I have called you friends” (Jn 15:15)
24 giugno 2025
Seminarians' Jubilee. Leo XIV: "The seminary must be a school of affections!"
Pope Leo XIV offers a meditation to seminarians on the occasion of the Jubilee
23 giugno 2025
“I Have Called You Friends”: Leo XIV with Priests at the Heart of the Jubilee
Pope Leo XIV meets seminarians and priests on the occasion of their Jubilee