The Archdiocese of Agaña confirmed Father Luis Camacho has returned to Guam after being off island since 2015 while a canonical investigation was being conducted related to his arrest nine year
After a Louisiana 12-year-old’s sainthood cause got the world’s attention, two friends went to learn her story for themselves. What they found surprised them.
null / Credit: Father Luis Ángel Espinosa, LC/CathopicDenver, Colo., Apr 26, 2023 / 12:00 pm (CNA).More than 450 men are set to be ordained priests this year, and the survey of their ordination class shows that the overwhelming majority of priests-to-be were raised Catholic in intact families and individually showed habits of frequent church service and regular prayer life."On this day, let us thank God for continuing to call men and women to serve him and his Church as priests, religious, and consecrated persons," Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing, Michigan, said April 25. "We pray that all families, teachers, and priests will continue their essential work of instilling the faith and love of Jesus in our children."Boyea chairs the U.S. bishops Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life, and Vocations. On Tuesday the committee released the "Ordination Class of 2023 Study" from the Georgetown University-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA).CAR
null / Credit: Father Luis Ángel Espinosa, LC/CathopicACI Prensa Staff, Mar 19, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).In 2023 the Legionaries of Christ religious order will provide 32 new priests for service to the Church. Twenty-nine of them will be ordained in Rome in the papal basilica of St. Mary Major on April 29 by Cardinal Fernando Vérguez, president of the Governorate of the State of Vatican City.The other three will receive priestly ordination at different times of the year.The soon-to-be new priests of the Legionaries of Christ come from Germany, Colombia, Chile, South Korea, Canada, Brazil, El Salvador, Spain, the United States, Italy, Mexico, and Venezuela.The April 29 ordination in Rome can be viewed live on the congregation s website at 10 a.m. Rome time.Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNA s Spanish-language news partner, Miguel Esponda Sada, a seminarian of the Legionaries of Christ who will be ordained a priest this year, said that "to be a priest is to be a sign and living presence .
She died in 1959, at age 12. But for Catholics in her Louisiana community, that was just the beginning of her incredible story and a decades-long fight to make her a saint.