The example of faithful and joyful priests showed Father Christopher Jeffrey Bethge, 25, what true priesthood and fatherhood is, enabling him to discern his own vocation.
Month: June 2015
Average Age of Newly Ordained Is 34
WASHINGTON – The 2015 class of men ordained to the priesthood report that they were, on average, about 17 when they first considered a vocation to the priesthood and encouraged to consider a vocation by an average of four people. Seven in 10 (71 percent) say they were encouraged by a parish priest, as well […]
Pope Urges Priests to Be Men of Tenderness
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis told priests to seek the lost, serve the unwanted and share God’s unconditional love. “I ask you to be shepherds with God’s tenderness, to leave the ‘whip’ hanging in the sacristy and be shepherds with tenderness, even with those who create more trouble for you,” he said.
Africa, Asia See Increase in Number of Priests
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Results of a study released June 1 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) said that the highest growth rates for numbers of priests are in Africa and Asia.
Choice of College Can Determine One’s Vocation
By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – The college experience – and the Catholic college experience, especially – can influence a young man’s decision toward considering a priestly vocation, according to a study issued in early July by Boston College. Among the factors that have helped sway a man’s decision to enter priestly life are access […]
Photos: Ordinations to Diaconate
Seven of the men, who will be ordained priests on June 25, were ordained to the diaconate by Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014, at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y.
Double Issue next Week
The next issue of The Tablet will be dated July 4 and will be a double issue. The following week there will be no edition dated July 11. The rest of the summer schedule remains on a weekly basis with special editions covering the ordinations of Bishops James Massa and Witold Mroziewki in July and […]
Diocesan Assignments – June 27, 2015
PASTOR Rev. Ilyas Gill, from parochial vicar of St. Bernard, Mill Basin, and from chaplain at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Brooklyn Hospital, and from New York Community Hospital of Brooklyn, to pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary, Kensington, while remaining coordinator of ministry to the Pakistani Immigrants, effective June 30.
Youth Group Visits Coney Island Nursing Home
In honor of Father’s Day, members of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Youth Group, Flatlands, visited residents at St. Joachim and Anne Nursing Home, Coney Island. They sang songs such as “The Star Spangled Banner” and “He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands,” while residents sang and clapped along.
Blessed Teresa’s Words Inspire Loughlin Writers
Bishop Loughlin Memorial H.S., Fort Greene, recently hosted a writing contest for which students penned poems and prose inspired by a quote from Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.