PORTLAND, Ore. — Lay ministers are taking an ever-greater role in the Catholic Church in 21st-century America. Whether that role will be positive or negative is the subject of ongoing debate.

The 2018 class of the master of divinity program at Notre Dame's Moreau Seminary is pictured here. The program, similar to ones found at Boston College and the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. A few weeks ago, I was invited by a priest-friend (Fr. Phil Estrella, OMI) to his new program. He is passionately ...