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Number of Catholic priests for Nigerian diocese surpasses 400 with 23 new ordinations

August 13, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

In his remarks at the ordination of 23 new priests, Bishop Godfrey Igwebuike Onah expressed gratitude and joy for the growing number of priests serving in his Episcopal See in Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Nsukka on Aug. 10, 2024. / Credit: Dioc… […]

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Ordination of 9 new priests represents hope for Church in Nicaragua

January 9, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua, on Jan. 6, 2024, ordained nine new priests in the midst of one of the worst waves of persecution against the Catholic Church in the country. / Credit: Archdiocese of Managua

ACI Pr… […]

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After nine years without ordinations, Argentine diocese has a new priest. Here’s his story

May 14, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Alexis Oser. / Credit: Press Diocese of Alto Valle de Río Negro

ACI Prensa Staff, May 14, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
After nine years without priestly ordinations, the Diocese of Alto Valle de Río Negro in Argentina on May 1 celebrated the o… […]

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Legionaries of Christ to ordain 32 new priests in 2023

March 19, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

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ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 19, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
In 2023 the Legionaries of Christ religious order will provide 32 new priests for service to the Church. Twenty-nine of them will be ordaine… […]

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First-ever blind Catholic priest in Kenya is ordained

January 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Michael Mithamo King’ori embraces Archbishop Anthony Muheria during his Jan. 14, 2023, ordination Mass. / Credit: Nyeri Archdiocese

ACI Africa, Jan 17, 2023 / 11:00 am (CNA).
The ordination of the first-ever blind Catholic priest in Keny… […]

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He was in a coma for 50 days due to COVID and was just ordained a priest

November 23, 2022 Catholic News Agency 3

A crowd accompanied Nathanael Alberione in his ordination on Nov. 21, 2022. / Credit: Christ the Worker Parish

CNA Newsroom, Nov 23, 2022 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Nathanael Alberione of Cordoba, Argentina, won the battle against COVID-19 in 2021, and … […]

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Archbishop Ladaria and the transgender movement

May 30, 2018 Catholic News Agency 10

The ongoing discussion of, or agitation for, women’s ordination seems to be an exercise in never taking no for an answer. […]

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