Why do priests wear black with a white collar? What is the history and significance? Question of Faith | Fr. David Endres The colors of the vesture that clergy wear are diverse: from the white worn by the pope, to the bishops’ purple, to the black of diocesan priests. In …

By Courtney Mares Vatican City, Jan 8, 2024 / 12:13 pm A Vatican official has said that he thinks the Catholic Church’s priestly celibacy requirement in the Latin rite should be revised. Archbishop Charles Scicluna, who serves as the archbishop of Malta and is an assistant secretary at the Vatican’s Dicastery …

by Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Oct 19, 2022 / 13:23 pm A study that claims to be the largest national survey of Catholic priests conducted in more than 50 years has found that despite relatively high levels of personal well-being and fulfillment among priests as a whole, a significant …

by Jonah McKeown Denver Newsroom, Nov 29, 2021 / 13:00 pm First in a series of articles examining the 2021 Survey of American Catholic Priests (SACP) findings. A new survey released this month suggests a more “pessimistic” view of the Catholic Church among U.S. priests today as compared to 2002, as …