Church Websites and Documents
related with the Diocesan Priesthood
and Seminary Formation

Websites

Vatican / Holy See
Congregation for the Clergy (in Vatican.va; in Clerus.org)
Congregation for the Catholic Education

Papal Documents

Pastores dabo vobis (25 March 1992)
Dominicae cenae (24 February 1980)
Letters to Priests for Holy Thursday
Messages on World Day for Vocations

Vatican II Documents

Presbyterorum ordinis (7 December 1965)
Optatam totius (28 October 1965)

Congregation for the Clergy Documents

Instruction: The Priest, Pastor and Leader of the Parish Community (4 August 2002)
The Priest and the Third Christian Millenium (19 March 1999)
The collaboration of the non-ordained faithful in the Sacred Ministry of Priest (15 August 1997)
Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests (31 January 1994)
Instruction "Postquam Apostoli" (25 March 1980)

Documents for priests from other offices

Vademecum for Confessors concerning Some Aspects of the Morality of Conjugal Life (12 February 1997)
Concerning the Reception of Holy Communion by the Divorced and Remarried Members of the Faithful (14 October 1994)
Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian (24 May 1990)

Documents on Seminary Formation and Vocation Promotion

The Propaedeutical Period - Informative Document (10 May 1998)
Final Document of the Congress on Vocations to the Priesthood and to Consecrated Life (6 January 1998)
Guide to the Training of Future Priests Concerning the Instruments of Social Communication (19 March 1986)