“We know that in the harshness of our cultural climate, each priestly vocation, and each young discerner’s heart, is a fragile thing that must be loved and held sacred and formed into maturity. It must stay anchored to an unflinching branch in order to become fully itself: healed, restored and radically free.” – Claire Dwyer
“Believers have more of a sense of being caught behind enemy lines. It seems time for fathers to man up and engage the fray.” – Dr. Anthony Lilles
“Priests have special graces of protection from the evil one, but they are also special targets.” – Monsignor Stephen Rossetti
There is cause for hope in the Church today, in the hearts of young men discerning the priesthood.
What do demons see when they look upon the face of the priest?
Help me help the men who are willing to give God everything.
A year of beginnings brings with it a promise of hope–for the Church and for all of us!
Will you join the Avila Foundation in our most important work?
Dan Burke responds to the McCarrick Report.
Have priests and seminarians ever needed our prayers more?
