Formazione Sacerdotale


12/06/2026

“The priest who isolates himself fades away”: Leo XIV writes to the clergy on the Feast of the Sacred Heart

On the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which coincides with the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests, the Pope signs a mes...

12/05/2026

Vatican, sex and power: the real issue behind the obsession with priests’ private lives

From asymmetrical relationships to addictions, from careers built through co-option to the loneliness of the clergy: the problem is not the priest’...

10/05/2026

The Church and the ignored violin

Joshua Bell’s experiment also challenges our communities: how many priests, lay people and young people are ignored because the system does not kno...

09/05/2026

Lace and poison. The small but toxic clerical faction Leo XIV has begun to push to the margins

Tradition is not the problem; its distortion into identity, power and retaliation is. Leo XIV has begun to take space away from that small but corr...

23/04/2026

The erotic fixation seeping into the "sacristies"

The prurient fascination that attaches itself to certain ecclesial affairs points to a far deeper failure: the inability to conceive of the human p...

22/04/2026

Young priests, old labels: how the Church is mortifying its new vocations

Amid ageing presbyteries, ideological categories well past their sell-by date and mitres that would rather anaesthetise conflicts than face them, m...

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