The Vatican decided to restore the ancient practice of permanent deacons after the Second Vatican Council in 1967 but ...

‘Proy Than’, or coin offering toss, is an essential ritual in a new monk's ordination ceremony. Attendees are advised to bring umbrellas, as the event often becomes a festive scramble for the tossed ...

The bishop of Bandung led the ceremony in lieu of Bishop Murwito still recovering from COVID-19. One of the newly ordained priests is a Jakarta-born ethnic Chinese whose vocation developed in the ...

Fr. Clive Dytor is one of many married ex-Anglican clergy who quit the Church of England in the wake of its 1992 decision to ...

Edward J. Weisenburger has been named the next archbishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit, an area that includes more than 200 ...

The newly ordained priests took their vows at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, led by Bishop Wilson Nandaa. The newly ordained priests will be distributed across various parishes within the diocese. During the ...

“It’s a mission, a service. One doesn’t assign oneself a mission; it’s received.” Ordained in 1969 and now retired, Father Pénoukou spent most of his ministry training future priests ...

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor ordained two new priests for the archdiocese at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday morning ... More than 60 friends and relatives of Fr Slavomir came from Poland for the ...

The number of diocesan priests in the metropolitan archdiocese of Nairobi in Kenya, reached 150 on Saturday, after nine deacons were ordained to the priesthood. The colourful ordination ceremony also ...

The last ordination that took place in Novena Church was that of Fr Simon Tan CSsR in 1998 – 27 years ago. Cardinal William Goh concelebrated the Mass with some 40 priests, including Fr Victorino ...

Bishop Stefano Manetti of Fiesole, Italy, clarifies new document on the formation of priests, saying it reiterates ... the Litany of Saints during an ordination Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica ...

John Paul II, it is going in that direction." Francis has previously said that the door to women's ordination is closed, but proponents of a female priesthood are hoping that a future pope might ...