MAUMERE, Indonesia — Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. He attended St. Peter Major Seminary, a bastion ...

Rabena, the seminary chancellor, pointed to his own decision to join the clergy, saying it had been "ignited" by the 2015 visit of Pope Francis to the country following the deadliest storm in its ...

MAUMERE, Indonesia—Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. He attended St. Peter Major Seminary, a bastion of ...

Vatican City, Dec 31, 2024 / 15:00 pm. Pope Francis on Sunday appointed Bishop Roberto Calara Mallari as the new bishop of the Diocese of Tarlac in the Philippines.

Philippines badly needs more Catholic priests. Could a Filipino pope boost clergy ranks? ... chancellor of UST Central Seminary, one the country’s oldest, said this week.

MAUMERE, Indonesia — Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. He attended St. Peter Major Seminary, a bastion ...

Father Robert Reyes, a well-known activist priest, said he sounded the alarm during his 1987-98 tenure as national vocation director of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

MAUMERE, Indonesia — Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. He attended St. Peter Major Seminary, a bastion ...

He attended St. Peter Major Seminary, a bastion of priestly vocations located in the middle of a jungle on Flores, a predominantly Catholic island in Muslim-majority Indonesia.

MAUMERE, Indonesia (AP) — Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. He attended St. Peter Major Seminary, a ...

MAUMERE, Indonesia (AP) — Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest, just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. He attended St. Peter Major Seminary… ...

But one Indonesian seminary is overwhelmed with applicants. ... — Arnoldus Yansen thought for certain he was going to become a Catholic priest , just like his older brother, cousin and uncle. He ...