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Different paths to same vocation: Twin brothers ordained priests in Aleppo, Syria

July 10, 2024 Catholic News Agency 2

The entrance into the Franciscan church in Aleppo, Syria, of the twins George and Johnny Jallouf, friars of the Custody of the Holy Land, who were ordained priests on July 6, 2024. The two ordinands are wearing the priestly vestments with which … […]

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Cardinals Müller and Schönborn: Ordination of women is impossible

June 10, 2024 Catholic News Agency 12

Cardinals Christoph Schönborn and Gerhard Ludwig Müller. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA

CNA Newsroom, Jun 10, 2024 / 13:45 pm (CNA).
Shortly after Pope Francis opposed the possibility of an ordained female diaconate, two German-speaking cardinals … […]

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New priest finds calling to young adult ministry through Ultimate Frisbee

May 26, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Gregory Miller plays Ultimate Frisbee during the annual "Cassock Classic." / Credit: Father Gregory Miller

CNA Staff, May 26, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Father Gregory Miller is a recently ordained priest for the Archdiocese of Phi… […]

The Dispatch

Holy Thursday, foot-washing, and the institution of the priesthood

April 6, 2023 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 35

In many Catholic parishes on Holy Thursday, a foot-washing ritual is incorporated into Mass. Although optional, most parishes choose to do it, for it is a most powerful symbol in the present day, just as […]

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Speech of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Prefect to the German bishops

December 5, 2022 CWR Staff 29

Editor’s note: The following is the full text of the speech given on Nov. 18, 2022, by His Eminence Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to […]

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Lent and the Sacraments: Holy Orders

April 8, 2022 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 44

The treatment of the Sacrament of Holy Orders1 in the Catechism begins with the reminder that this is “the sacrament of the apostolic ministry,” conferred in three degrees: episcopate, presbyterate, diaconate; the first two orders […]

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Santa Fe archdiocese: Woman’s attempted ordination invalid

October 21, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

The Cathedral Church of St. John in Albuquerque, N.M., seat of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, which hosted the attempted ordination of Anne Tropeano Oct. 16, 2021. / teofilo via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Santa Fe, N.M., Oct 21, 2021 / 16:00 p… […]

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Pope Francis thanks Benedict XVI on his 70th ordination anniversary

June 29, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Francis greets Benedict XVI at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery on Nov. 28, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media.

Vatican City, Jun 29, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis thanked Benedict XVI on Tuesday for his continual prayer for the Churc… […]

The Dispatch

McCarrick might be ‘laicized’ this week. What’s that?

February 12, 2019 Catholic News Agency 13

Denver, Colo., Feb 12, 2019 / 03:41 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Theodore McCarrick will reportedly be laicized this week, if he is found guilty of having sexually abused minors. But what does it mean to be […]

Features

Cdl. Müller: “We are experiencing conversion to the world, instead of to God”

June 26, 2018 CWR Staff 63

In an exclusive CWR interview, the former prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith discusses tensions over the proposed reception of Holy […]

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