What makes young Scotsmen ranging from former law students, teachers, DJs and merchant seamen decide to give up their fairly conventional careers and turn to a vocation like the priesthood?

Deacon Devesi is one of the 80 priests ordained by the church to date. Number of parishioners and other denominations in ...

1994: John Paul II Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, stating the subject of women’s ordination to the priesthood is no longer open to debate. 1995: WOC celebrates 20th anniversary with Washington conference.

In other words: bishop, priest and deacon. What has been said above refers first and foremost to the Apostles and their successors, the bishops. Those men who receive episcopal ordination receive ...

Ordination is the term used to refer to someone being set apart to be a minister. In some Protestant churches men and women can be ordained as ministers, but in others it is only men who can be ...

Limited in her abilities to hold her own services, Tropeano's main focus in the years since her ordination has been on advocacy. Ultimately, her biggest desire is still to be a priest in the ...

Tropeano is one of over 200 women across the world who are part of the Roman Catholic woman priest movement, a group who are taking part in unauthorised ordination services to become priests ...

Daniel Micah will be ordained on Dec. 14 as a transitional deacon – the final step before ordination to the priesthood – by ...

“Ordination is an incredible grace but to ... moments I have as archbishop of Sydney ordaining young men to the priesthood.” “It always gives us great hope, confidence and gratitude to ...