Amid ageing presbyteries, ideological categories well past their sell-by date and mitres that would rather anaesthetise conflicts than face them, m...
The Study Group 4 Report increases the weight of consultation and obscures the doctrine of sacred power.
“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 prie...
Leo XIV writes an Apostolic Letter sixty years after the conciliar decrees on priestly formation, and on the ministry and life of presbyters.
In the seminaries, they select those most inclined to submission, not those truly called. It’s a system that prefers obedience over freedom, depend...
When the episcopate renounces discernment and takes refuge in co-optation