24 luglio 2026
Can a Seminary Rector Tell You Who You Can Be Friends With?
When obedience intrudes into friendships, affections and conscience, religious authority oversteps its bounds and takes on the hallmarks of cult-like control.
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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…
19 luglio 2026
Notre Dame’s Shameful Blueprint for Policing Seminarians’ Consciences
The McGrath Institute at the University of Notre Dame has published twelve proposals on seminary formation. Among them are the creation of a dated record for anyone who…
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 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…
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…
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.
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…
20 luglio 2025
Invisible Criteria: the superior does not discern, he rewards
When the episcopate renounces discernment and takes refuge in co-optation
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.
25 giugno 2025
Leo XIV to the seminarians: “Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus”
The Pope received the seminarians from the Triveneto dioceses.t
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