News that the global Catholic Church would get its first U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholic students at Princeton and ...

Scottish soon-to-be priests Matthew McCafferty and Kieran Burt reflect on meeting the new Holy Father — and following in his ...

Newly ordained, bestowing his first priestly blessings, Father Randy Skeate smiled with quiet gratitude when asked how he ...

Later that day, Father Raymond Gormley preached the homily for Father Mulranen’s First Mass at Church of the Incarnation, ...

“I had a sense early on that I had a call to this vocation,” Medow said.

was charged with misdemeanor battery in Illinois for the incident in November. Joliet Police Department The priest was confronted by employees of the Diocese of Joliet, and he was told that “he ...

According to the Diocese of Joliet, an incident between a priest hosting the event and some students took place at Queen of Apostles Church. No further information was provided on the circumstances.

Hicks, Bishop of the Diocese of Joliet, will participate in Mass and ... substance”), when at the consecration of the Mass, the priest says the words which Christ Himself pronounced over bread ...

Sixteen parishes in the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, will be reconfigured into ... including fewer and aging priests, and aging church buildings, as well as lower Mass attendance and "the trend ...

He also mentioned Father John Regan, a priest of the Diocese of Joliet, who pled guilty in 2011 to stealing $300,000 from an Illinois parish, and was assigned to another Joliet parish the next ...

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