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SAINT FACTS: French name: Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney Struggled with Latin and the seminary in general Well-known confessor spending some 14-18 hours in the confessional Canonized in 1925, the only parish priest to have received the honor St. Luke Productions brought a live drama about his life to the Phoenix Diocese in 2009 during the [...]

Steven Torres, a first-year seminarian at the Pontifical College Josephinum and a Bourgade alumnus, just sent me this photo and the following message. Thought I’d share it as well as the request for continued prayers as midterms, essays and projects culminate this week (in this Year for Priests, these prayers for seminarians from The Curé [...]

Today marks Priesthood Sunday. As the name suggests, today is a time to specially honor priests for their lifelong service to the Church. A host of groups sponsor the annual event including the USA Council of Serra International and catholic Scouting groups, who encourage local parishes to find their own ways of honoring their priests. [...]

In a not-so-surprising headline, especially given that it is the Year for Priests, I read today that “Nuns, priests urged to reach out to young people to promote vocations.” The results came from the “Study of Recent Vocations to Religious Life” released Aug. 11 and compiled into a CNS story yesterday. The story urged having [...]

Appropriately, it seems many parishes, dioceses and other Catholic groups are creating ways to honor the Church’s spiritual leaders during the Year for Priests. As our readers should know, The Catholic Sun is profiling Phoenix priests in its regular “Your Catholic Priest” feature. “Feed My Sheep” is a television series along the same lines. CatholicTV [...]