Vocaciones - Omnes

A Catholic perspective on current events

Identity and role of the priest in the Church

Interview with Monsignor Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira, Secretary of the Dicastery for the Clergy, on the identity and role of the priest in the Church.

Paloma López Campos

Carlos ChiclanaA problematic sexual behavior is something more complex than a struggle for the virtue of chastity".

In a recent study, Carlos Chiclana, a medical psychiatrist, has focused his attention on the affective and emotional needs, deficiencies and challenges of priests and seminarians. The results show the importance of attending, in priestly formation, to the essential elements of the priesthood, as well as to particular needs according to formation, education, social origin, family system and life experiences.

Maria Jose Atienza

Priestly vocation. "The call is as current today as it was in the first centuries."

Their names are Pedro, Hashita, Rosemberg Augusto, Ivan and David. They are young, they have their whole lives ahead of them, that same life that they have put entirely at the service of God. Their stories and backgrounds could not be more different. They come both from families with Catholic roots and from environments without faith or of other beliefs. All of them have decided, like the Apostles, to leave their boats and their father and follow him. These young men shared with Omnes their fears and joys, the story of their vocation and their idea of the future and what the Church and the world ask of priests in today's world.

Maria Jose Atienza

Jean-Luc MoensI don't want to go to heaven without my wife".

Mathematician, married and father of seven children, Jean-Luc Moens is a member of the Emmanuel community, one of the charismatic communities of the Catholic Church. In an interview granted to Omnes, he tells us how he lives this call of God in the midst of the world with the particularities of the community to which he belongs.

Maria Jose Atienza

Carlos Chiclana: "Priests must take care of themselves in order to take care of others".

What kind of priests does the Church need today? What should their human and spiritual formation be like? Do they miss anything in this formation? These are some of the questions addressed at the March 15 Omnes Forum on the affective life and priestly personality.

Paloma López Campos

Cardinal Lazzaro You: "For there to be good shepherds, all means must be provided".

There are many dimensions of the priesthood that require the diligent attention of the Church. In public opinion, the outlook is often negative: a decline in the number of vocations, polemical conceptions of the priesthood, less than exemplary behavior... Cardinal Lazzaro You addresses all these aspects in this interview.