“clericalism is ingrained in the very institution of the Church. It is a deeply-rooted mentality and ethos that is, without a doubt, most often identified in ecclesiastical ambition, certain forms of dress, and the language clerics and even many lay people tend to use.”
“Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris has appointed James Cunningham, a US-born priest and former superior general of the Oratorians of France, as the accompanying priest of Saint-Merry-Outside-the-Walls, an experimental parish set up in the French capital shortly after CVII.”
“Catholics in the archdiocese of Cambrai, northeastern France, remain in shock after a priest accused of sexually abusing a young teenage girl committed suicide. Benjamin Sellier, 47, parish priest in a small town of Avesnes-sur-Helpe less than ten miles from the Belgian border, died on Jul 11”
“The Vatican has banned one of its longtime priest-advisors on sexual and moral issues, Tony Anatrella, from practicing psychotherapy, following longstanding allegations that the Paris cleric abused male adult patients.”
“US Catholic priests have little trust in their bishops. That's one of the findings of the "National Study of Catholic Priests", a 25-page document released last month in the run-up to this week's general assembly of the USCCB. survey of 10,000 presbyters nationwide”
“A Catholic priest was kidnapped and killed and another managed to escape in Kaduna State where Nigeria's main Islamic jihadist groups have killed and terrorized Christians. This is the fourth instance of a Catholic priest killed this year in Nigeria's violence-wracked region. ”
“Fathers Javier Campos, 79, and Joaquín Mora, 80, were killed on June 20 in Cerocahui, Tarahumara, while they were trying to protect a man who ran into the church in search of refuge while he was fleeing from an armed individual.”
“Father Olivier Horovitz, a hospital and nursing home chaplain in the Archdiocese of Paris, has been forced to remove a video he posted some months ago on YouTube because of remarks that were deemed misogynistic.”
“La Croix has learned that the Vatican has been asking the 69-year-old bishop for years to review his management of vocations in his diocese, which has more than 300 priests and about 20 new communities.”
“More than 400 priests who are part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) have signed an online petition calling on an international ecclesiastical tribunal to sanction their chief spiritual leader Patriarch Kirill.”
“a religious priest, Fr. Olivier Maire, was killed by a Rwandan asylum seeker, whom he was hosting in his home and whose needy situation he had taken to heart. The victim, 60 years old, was ordained priest in 1990 after studying biology, belonged to the Montfortian Congregation. ”
“Milwaukee Abp Jerome Listecki, who serves as the chairman of the bps' Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance, told the nation's bps in a 9/22 memo that they might consider "various options" to ensure that only people assigned male at birth are ordained to the Catholic priesthood.
“There is nothing to suggest that for 18 years this man was the only Catholic priest in Afghanistan. Nor that in recent hours, the heart of 82-year-old Giuseppe Moretti is overwhelmed by the news coming out of Kabul.”