By Fr. Paweł Rytel-Andrianik & Wojciech Rogacin At his episcopal ordination in May 2022, Bishop Earl Fernandes quipped that there were more bishops being ordained that year than priests in the Diocese of Columbus. The congregation laughed, but Bishop Fernandes’ remark reflected the gravity of the situation. “At that time …

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Apr 16, 2024 / 13:30 pm The incoming class of seminarians who will be ordained in 2024 is young and involved in their community, an annual survey released April 15 found. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops commissioned the Center for Applied Research (CARA) at Georgetown University for …

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 7, 2023 / 18:10 pm Young Edoardo Santini, considered “the most handsome man in Italy,” has decided to leave his promising career as a model and enter a seminary to become a priest. Dancer, swimmer, actor — these were a few of the dreams …

By Natalia Zimbrão ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 11, 2023 / 16:30 pm The little boy who managed to get past the crowd control barrier at World Youth Day (WYD) in Rio de Janeiro in 2013 to give an emotional embrace to Pope Francis is now a seminarian preparing for the priesthood. …

by Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Oct 20, 2021 / 08:00 am Pope Francis has shared a letter written by a clerical sexual abuse survivor with candidates preparing for the Catholic priesthood. “For years I was mistreated by a priest who I should have called ‘little brother,’ and I was his …

by Joe Bukuras Fall River, Mass., Jul 20, 2021 / 18:19 pm A seminarian and former graphic designer has created the Auspice Maria website as an initiative of the new evangelization. John Garabedian, a seminarian of the Diocese of Fall River, told CNA his goal is “to present old truths …

by ACI Prensa Matanzas, Cuba, Jul 17, 2021 / 06:01 am Rafael Cruz Dévora, a seminarian who was arrested on Monday after participating in protests of Cuba’s communist government, was released Thursday. Protests took place across Cuba July 11-12. Protesters cited concerns about inflation, shortages of food and medicine, and …

by Eduardo Berdejo Matanzas, Cuba, Jul 15, 2021 / 16:19 pm Rafael Cruz Dévora, a seminarian, was arrested on Monday after participating in protests of Cuba’s communist government. Protests took place across Cuba July 11-12. Protesters cited concerns about inflation, shortages of food and medicine, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Some …

By CNA Staff Metuchen, N.J., May 13, 2021 / 11:01 am America/Denver (CNA). A seminarian for the Diocese of Metuchen was killed Tuesday evening in a hit-and-run accident in Manhattan. Ngu Quoc “Peter” Tran, 29, was a first-year theology student at Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University in South …

Madrid, Spain, Apr 28, 2020 / 04:27 pm MT (CNA).- While most of the students at the San Fulgencia Seminary in Cartagena, Spain, returned home when the country declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, one seminarian felt a different calling. With a background in medicine, first-year seminarian …