priests

Are priests expected to pause their sermons while immigration officials drag congregants from their pews for deportation?

The crowd, a mixture of priests and nuns based in Rome and Catholic pilgrims here for a Jubilee year, were led by an American cardinal.

Nuns dangling rosary beads, tourists and student priests were among those who joined the gentle incantation of the rosary in the Vatican.

“They look for priests who, of course, have to be true men of God and committed to the Catholic Church. But, specifically, the Vatican wants people who are capable.”

My mother was an adult convert to Catholicism and frequently wrote to priests.