In celebration of the Year of the Priest, Priests for Scotland invites you to present Contemporary Images of the Diocesan Priest. Photographs should depict the essence of the Diocesan Catholic Priest. This competition is organised by Priests for Scotland with sponsorship from Arnold Clark, Phoenix Honda, T&R O'Brien, the Union of Catholic Mothers and the Catenian Association.

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This area contains information for priests.

Priests who wish to view this material will need a password for the secure area. If you wish to 'sign up' please contact the Priests for Scotland office by clicking here. A password will be sent to you and we will add you to the list of secure users.

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We would be glad to help you understand how to have articles from the Priests for Scotland web site directly on your own web site.

The Recently Viewed panel displays the articles that you have recently viewed on your visits to  the site. This panel is unique only to you.

For the first time on Priests for Scotland we have site search facility. You will notice the search bar at the left hand side of all the pages of the site.

To find something you are looking for simply enter the search word. You can select whether you want to find an article, a piece of news, a web page or a blog.

Go on give it a go, you never know what you will find!

Rocco Palmo writes from America for The Tablet, the international Catholic weekly published in London. He also authors "Almost Holy," a fortnightly column for Busted Halo, an online magazine on spirituality and culture run by the Paulist Fathers. Palmo's appeared as a commentator on things Catholic in The New York Times, Associated Press, The San Francisco Chronicle, BBC, National Public Radio, The Washington Post and Religion News Service, among other print and broadcast outlets. A Philadelphia native, Rocco Palmo attended the University of Pennsylvania, from which he earned the Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

The new Priests for Scotland site allows individuals to post articles, news items and blogs to the site for inclusion.

The site menu is visable from the front page allows authors of the site to log in and send articles for submission.

If you feel you would like to contribute to the site either by writing an article or by contributing a blog then you can request an account by clciking on the Become an Author link.

The submission process is very simple and once approved you will  be able to add articles, blogs or new information to the site.