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Father Charles Gnanapragasam chats with well-wishers following a "Keep Our Priests" rosary rally at St. Mary Church in East Islip, N.Y., April 29, 2024. More than 300 people gathered to pray for changes in U.S. immigration procedures to prioritize visa and Father Charles Gnanapragasam chats with well-wishers following a “Keep Our Priests” rosary rally at St. Mary Church in East Islip, New York, April 29, 2024. More than 300 people gathered to pray for changes in U.S. immigration procedures to prioritize visa and green card applications for foreign-born religious workers. (OSV News/Gregory A. Shemitz)

What our reliance on foreign-born priests says about US Catholics

Msgr. Richard Antall|Sep 28, 2026|5 Min Read

Ten priests lie prostrate as Pope Leo XIV celebrates their ordination in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 26, 2026. Priests are called each day to leave the doors of the Church open to a "suffering humanity" in need and not "be an obstacle to those who wish to enter," Pope Leo told the deacons just before ordaining them to the priesthood. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti Vatican Media)

Pope Leo to new priests: Keep Church door open, don't be an obstacle

Junno Arocho Esteves|Apr 26, 2026|4 Min Read

A priest lays hands on Deacon Kieran Halloran during his ordination to the priesthood at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York City June 14, 2025. A new report from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, conducted for the U.S. bishops, looks at the defining features of the more than 400 men who will be ordained to the priesthood in 2026. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Top 10 takeaways from a report on the 400 men becoming US priests in 2026

Gina Christian|Apr 22, 2026|6 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV greets members of the General Chapter of the Legionaries of Christ at the Vatican Feb. 19, 2026. Pope Leo reminded the members that exercising governance and authority is meant as a service and not as a means to control others. (OSV News photo/Mario Tomassetti, Vatican Media)

Pope Leo encourages young priests in crisis to share their fatigue

Almudena Martínez-Bordiú|Feb 19, 2026|3 Min Read

ICE

NJ diocese hopes proposed law will resolve religious worker visa problems

Gina Christian|Jun 6, 2025|5 Min Read

Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney of Paterson, N.J., is seen participating in the Via Crucis, or the Way of the Cross, near the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson on Good Friday, April 7, 2023. The Paterson Diocese and five of its diocesan priests filed a lawsuit against federal agencies Aug. 8, 2024, in the U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., arguing a rule change in religious worker visas means the foreign-born priests are in the position of having to "count the days until they have no lawful choice but to abandon their congregations" in the U.S. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

US changes to religious worker visas could affect priests ministering in Arkansas, other dioceses

OSV News|Oct 23, 2024|6 Min Read

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Immigrant priests, New Jersey diocese sue U.S. State Department over visa delays

Daniel Payne|Aug 16, 2024|3 Min Read

Members of the clergy arrive for Mass in late 2013 at Notre Dame Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Bangui, Central African Republic. (CNS photo/Luc Gnago, Reuters)

If Catholicism were a corporation, we wouldn’t distribute priests like this

John L. Allen Jr.|Jul 2, 2024|5 Min Read

Ordination

The three countercultural promises of a priest

Bishop Robert Barron|May 7, 2024|4 Min Read

Father Goyo Hidalgo

'Prodigal' LA priest’s new book details his way back to God

Heather King|Apr 28, 2023|5 Min Read

Vocations

Faith

CARA survey of new priests shows faith and family are central

Kevin Jones|Apr 26, 2023|4 Min Read

congo

Pope asks Congo's priests, religious to be authentic witnesses of faith

Cindy Wooden|Feb 2, 2023|4 Min Read

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