“I don’t understand why priests have to be celibate.”

“I don’t understand why priests have to be celibate.”

Excerpted from pages 42-47 of A Priest in the Family, a book by Fr. Brett Brannen for families of men discerning the priesthood. I once heard the story of the Lotha tribe in Nagaland, India, a place that many Protestant missionaries had visited. They had all tried to...

"Thank you, Father!" – A Vocation Story

This vocation story was relayed to us from a priest who has spent much time in his priestly ministry promoting vocations: Dear Father, I know this is completely out of the blue, and I doubt you remember me or the event I’m about to share, and honestly I’m...