It is a tremendous joy for me to be a priest. I could not have predicted what a joy the priesthood would be. I have never regretted being a priest, not for a minute.
No American seminary would accept Tolton because of his race, so he studied for the priesthood in Rome and was ordained in 1886 at the age of 31, becoming the first African American ordained as a ...
DENVER — Matthew Book looks forward to being a priest, but not the part about living alone. He prays that his new community might help alleviate some of the isolation priests experience in a world ...