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Catholic men set to become priests later this year are trending younger than average and said their parents often influenced their decision to pursue the vocation, according to a new survey.

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,...

The survey was released ahead of the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, marked by the Catholic Church this year on April 30, the Fourth Sunday of Easter.

CARA sought survey responses from the 458 seminarians to be ordained this year. It received 334 responses, a response rate of 73%. Responses came from ordinan...

During the service, palms were handed out, which are symbolic of people waving and placing palm branches in front of Christ as he rode into Jerusalem

FLINT – A schedule of events has been announced for this year's official Flint St. Patrick's Day Celebrations. The celebrations begin a few weeks early on March 4 with the annual Pre-St. Patrick’s Day Party and Miss Hibernia Pageant held at the Dom Polski hall on Linden Road just south of Pierson Road in Mt. Morris Township.

Null / sergign/Shutterstock.Denver, Colo., Dec 30, 2022 / 14:55 pm (CNA).The Michigan Supreme Courts new interpretation of anti-discrimination law requires schools to impose strict policies and practices enforcing non-Catholic views of sexual orientation and gender identity and would ban catechesis about marriage and the sexes, a Catholic schools legal challenge claims.In July, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that sexual orientation and gender identity were protected categories under a 1976 Mic...

Null / Stephen Kiers/ShutterstockSt. Louis, Mo., Dec 7, 2022 / 12:55 pm (CNA).A Catholic parish in central Michigan is suing the state attorney general over the state Supreme Courts recent redefinition of "sex" discrimination as encompassing sexual orientation and gender identity, arguing that the redefinition, among other things, threatens the parishs ability to hire people who model the Churchs teachings. St. Joseph, the only parish in the town of St. Johns, about 30 minutes nor...

A Catholic church in St. Johns within the Diocese of Lansing is suing the Attorney General and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights over recent changes to the state’s civil rights laws.

Proposal 3 is an amendment to the Michigan State Constitution that enshrines a right to abortion—among a whole boatload of other reproductive “rights.”