This is what the Church means by saying that the priest, by virtue of the sacrament of Holy Orders, acts in persona Christi Capitis [in the person of Christ, the Head]” (“Catechism of the ...

Without holy orders, we would not have four of the ... All the way to Adam. Yes! Adam was a priest. In order to make this clear, we must understand that the primary role of the priest is to ...

Anthony Pierce, who admitted sexually abusing a boy under the age of 16 during the 1980s, has been jailed for four years. | ...

Anthony Pierce, 84, the retired Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, sexually assaulted the boy during organ and piano lessons in ...

The close-knit Catholic community in Belfast’s Ardoyne has been stunned by an alleged affair involving one of its priests, ...

of the Priest, and of the Deacons, but at a different level, with different ministries, at a different degree,” he clarified, terming the combination of these three dimensions as “the great variety ...

School of Theology and Ministry Professor Rev. Richard Lennan Groome said the conference showed him that despite ideological differences “one of the things that emerged was a deep care for holy orders ...

Why would you need a High Priest—a man whose duties are to strictly follow divine orders throughout a yearly ... And they realized that the holy building, the Temples and Tabernacles, were ...

Claims against the famous artist have brought attention to the widespread sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse of ...

There was much media coverage some months ago about the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby over his ...

This newly designated national shrine is holy ground, witnessing to 17th-century Jesuit priests and laymen and St. Kateri ...