Germany’s Theology Schools Are Collapsing as Leo’s Synod Wants Women Helping Choose Future Priests

Germany’s Theology Schools Are Collapsing as Leo’s Synod Wants Women Helping Choose Future Priests

As enrollment crashes across Germany, Rome answers with synodal seminary reform, female input in priestly discernment, and yet another Vatican text centered on man rather than God Germany’s Catholic theology ...
Seminaries, Blood Oaths, and Manly Priests

Seminaries, Blood Oaths, and Manly Priests

How well are seminaries doing in forming the priests we need to reform the Church—one dominated by a lavender mafia? A useful assessment is the recently-published 171 page study “Evaluating ...
Why Men Become Priests

Why Men Become Priests

This is the first of three articles addressing why men enter the seminary to study for the priesthood and be ordained; why some leave; and why others stay. In some ...