The chasuble’s origins trace back to ... narrow band of fabric worn around the neck. It’s a vestment that denotes the clergy’s ordained status. Deacons wear it diagonally across the chest; priests and ...

A priest’s role in the Church extends beyond preaching and pastoral care; it involves celebrating the sacred liturgy.

A Requiem Mass is one said in black vestments and with special prayers ... The chief parts of the Mass are: 1.The Offertory, at which the priests offers to God the bread and wine to be changed ...

The mitre and crosier are used in formal Mass settings. For ordinations: When ordaining priests or deacons, a bishop wears more elaborate vestments, including the full regalia of the mitre, chasuble, ...

Gunmen have kidnapped Rev. Father Livinus Maurice, a Catholic priest of the Port Harcourt Diocese, along with two others. Maurice serves as the Parish Priest of St Patrick’s Catholic Church in ...

At a gathering of Catholic clergy in Rome, the trio of cardinals emphasized the unique and indispensable role of priests at this time in human history. Clergy assemble for a photo during the Third ...

“I hate seeing new priests come to our community. I hate the smell of the incense that the Catholic Church uses.” She said she recently found her birth certificate and that she planned to burn ...

Tough guy Rocky Sullivan (James Cagney) and Catholic priest Jerry Connolly (Pat O’Brien) were boyhood friends who took different paths. Sullivan becomes the idol of a group of boys whom Connolly ...

She is exhibit A for why women should not be pastors, priests, or bishops. She would rather engage in emotional blackmail and blasphemy than preach the word of God. And, again, it's no surprise ...

priests delegated thereto by the Ordinary of the place, subject to the extent of the delegation and the power of the one delegating; * religious superiors and their priest subjects whom they ...

As a Catholic priest in Philadelphia, I am concerned. It is within these places of worship, in the Catholic tradition as well as many other faith traditions, that we hear proclaimed God’s message of ...