Forty-two cardinals, 42 bishops and 1,800 priests living in Rome concelebrated the Mass. Holy Thursday marks the institution ...

Those men who receive episcopal ordination receive the fullness of the sacrament of holy orders. What Christ prepared the Twelve to do, and who he prepared them to be, continues through apostolic ...

Without holy orders, we would not have four of the other ... However, priesthood goes back much farther, way before Exodus 32 and the ordination of the Levites to the service of Yahweh, and ...

Taking holy orders is a commitment for life both to ... The following is a prayer said at the ordination of a priest: Lord, holy Father, … when you had appointed high priests to rule your ...

COMMENTARY: Some crucial teachings of the Church have been called into question, even contradicted, by various aspects of the synodality project.