Chicago Vocation Newsletter

"In Seminaries, New Ways for a New Generation" LAURIE GOODSTEIN
(New York Times article featuring Mundelein Seminary)

PASTORES DABO VOBIS (I Will Give You Shepherds) Pope John Paul II

THE PRIEST AND THE THIRD CHRISTIAN MILLENNIUM: TEACHER OF THE WORD, MINISTER OF THE SACRAMENTS AND LEADER OF THE COMMUNITY
(The Congregation for the Clergy)

SACERDOTALIS CAELIBATUS (The Celibacy of the Priest) Pope Paul VI

ORDINATIO SACERDOTALIS (Priestly Ordination To Men Alone) Pope John Paul II

INSTRUCTION CONCERNING THE CRITERIA FOR THE DISCERNMENT OF VOCATIONS WITH REGARD TO PERSONS WITH HOMOSEXUAL TENDENCIES IN VIEW OF THEIR ADMISSION TO THE SEMINARY AND TO HOLY ORDERS (Congregation for Catholic Education)

"The Search for Homegrown Priests" ERIC FERKENHOFF (TIME.com article)

"God’s call to celibacy for the sake of his Kingdom" by Francis Cardinal George, Catholic New World 9/1/02

"Priest as Bearer of the Mystery" by Fr. Robert Barron, Church magazine
(Summer '94)

"Priest as Doctor of the Soul" by Fr. Robert Barron, Church Magazine
(Summer '96)

Recommended Books

HOLY BIBLE

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

QUICKENING THE FIRE IN OUR MIDST, George A. Aschenbrenner, S.J., Loyola Press

PRIESTS FOR THE THIRD MILLENIUM, Most Rev. Timothy Dolan, Our Sunday Visitor Press

THE PRIEST IS NOT HIS OWN, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Ignatius Press

PRAYING OUR EXPERIENCES, Joseph Schmidt, St. Mary Press

LIFE OF THE BELOVED: Spiritual Living in a Secular World, Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Crossroad Publishing Co.

OPENING TO GOD, Thomas Green, Ave Maria Press

MAKING ALL THINGS NEW: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life, Henri J.M. Nouwen, Harper

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