How Religious Beliefs and Practices Influence the Psychological Health of Catholic Priests by Anthony Isacco PhD, Ethan Sahker MA, Elizabeth Krinock MSCP, Wonjin Sim PhD, Deanna Hamilton PhD

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Clericalism Contributes to Religious, Spiritual, and Behavioral Struggles among Catholic Priests by Thomas G. Plante

“…Additionally, much has also been written and discussed about the challenging religious, spiritual, and behavioral struggles among clerics when clerical misbehavior significantly contradicts expected behavior in terms of sexual, behavioral, and relational ethics. Since Catholic priests are dedicated to chastity, obedience, and, among religious order clerics, poverty, both Catholics and non-Catholics alike expect and demand highly virtuous behavior from these men that they believe should be beyond reproach. …”
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Psychological Well-Being of Catholic Priests in Canada by Stephan Kappler, Innocent Okozi, Francois Diouf, Katharina Hartinger

“…Four hundred and eleven Catholic priests across Canada participated in an online survey during May and June 2021. …”
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Clergy (Kler) by Wojciech Smarzowski – The Image of Catholic Priests in Polish Movies After 1989 by Piotr Zwierzchowski

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The Vocation, Ministry and Mission of the Catholic Priests and Religious Men and Women in Church Mission in Africa by Francis Appiah-Kubi, Leo Andoh Korsah

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Missed Opportunities and Hope for Healing: Reflections of an Indigenous Catholic Priest--Interview with Fr. Daryold Winkler by Jane Barter, Doris Kieser, Daryold Winkler

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“You Are a Priest Forever”: The Dual Sacramentality and Humanity of Andean Roman Catholic Priests in Talavera, Peru by Christine Lee

“…By placing the Talaveran Catholic priests in theological and historical context, this article shows how this current generation of Catholic priests in Talavera must be understood within the context of the post–Vatican II Catholic Church in Latin America, which explicitly encouraged the training of native clergy and recast the relationship between the sacramental and the human as mutually compatible and constitutive. …”
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Communication with The Spirit World of God: Its Laws and Purpose. Extraordinary Experiences of a Catholic Priest by Johannes Greber by Michael Egon Tymn

“…Author Johannes Greber (1874–1944) was a Catholic priest in rural Germany when, in 1923, he began sitting with several trance mediums, through whom he received profound messages about God, Creation, Christ, and the laws governing spirit communication. …”
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A biography of N.P. Avtonomov – a renovationist “Archbishop”, a “Catholic Metropolitan”, a Greek Catholic Priest by Bochkov Pavel Vladimirovich

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Liturgical and Pastoral Activity as a Crime in Soviet Ukraine: The Case of Greek Catholic Priest, Roman Bakhtalovskyy, CSsR (1897–1985) by Andriy Oliynyk

“…Therefore, the sacramental activity of Greek Catholic priests was performed in complete secrecy until 1989. …”
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The response of Roman Catholic priests to Covid-19: A case study on the pastoral and communication activities of nine dioceses worldwide during the first months of the pandemic by Daniel Arasa, Lidia Kim, Jean-Florent Angolafale, Daniele Murrighili

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Priesthood Satisfaction and the Challenges Priests Face: A Case Study of a Rural Diocese in the Philippines by Jayeel Serrano Cornelio

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ROLE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY OF THE NORTHWESTERN KRAI OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE 1863 POLISH UPRISING by Alexandre Yu Bendin

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Counseling Regarding Sexual and Reproductive Behavior: Principles and Practices of Catholic Priests Orientaciones sobre el comportamiento sexual y reproductivo: principios y prácticas de los sacerdotes católicos Orientações sobre o comportamento sexual e reprodutivo: princípios e práticas dos sacerdotes católicos by Luiza Akiko Komura Hoga, Cristiane Alves Tiburcio, Ana Luiza Vilela Borges, Elma Lourdes Campos Pavone Zoboli, Rocio Elizabeth Chavez-Alvarez

“…This study describes the religious principles and guidance provided by Catholic priests on sexuality and reproduction. The oral history method was used. …”
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CONSTRUCTING THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF SLOVAK MUSIC DOBROSLAV OREL IN INTERWAR BRATISLAVA by Vladimír Zvara

“…The then dominating Czechoslovak idea and his identity as a Catholic priest played an important role in shaping his views. …”
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Rozważania nad dopuszczalnością pełnienia funkcji sołtysa przez duchownego Kościoła Katolickiego by Filip Pańczyk

“…Such offices should involve office of a village administrator, what determines the inadmissibility of performing the office of village administrator by catholic priest. …”
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The “Latins” on Mangup. Unique Western-European Cross-Encolpion from the Excavations of Prince’s Palace in Ancient Mangup: Problems of Attribution and Dating by Valery E. Naumenko

“…Among the many reasons why this encolpion, as a mandatory attribute of the clothing of a Catholic Priest, could end up on Mangup, the most likely are: unknown in the sources Genoese embassy to the capital of the Principality of Feodoro in the period of 1450–1475 for the purpose of establishing a permanent Catholic mission here; the presence of a Catholic priest in the large embassies of Kaffa to the court of the rulers of Feodoro in 1455, 1465 or around 1471; participation of Genoese, who fled from Kaffa after its capture by the Ottoman army, in the subsequent defense of the Mangup fortress in summer and autumn 1475.…”
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Egon (Igor) Sendler and Russian icon in the West by Kolupaev Vladimir Evgen'yevich

“…Egon (Igor) Sendler was a Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit order and one of the world's foremost experts on the painting of icons, known as one of the leading Western experts and theologians on the iconography, who worked in the Russian tradition. …”
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Two Documents on the 1895 Massacres of Syriacs in the Province of Diyarbekir: A Discussion by David Gaunt

“…One is the narrative of Makdisi Habib Jarwe who was a Syriac Catholic priest serving in Mardin and who died in 1915. …”
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Regaining Iceland for the Catholic Church in the mid-19th Century by Birgir Guðmundsson, Markus Meckl

“…In the late 1850s, the Church of Rome sent missionaries to Iceland; to begin with, a Catholic priest and an assistant. The proclaimed purpose of their stay was to service the thousands of French seamen that were fishing for cod in Icelandic waters. …”
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