Word: priesthoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vatican, however, has decided to press the issue. At Rome's instruction, Nicaraguan Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega last week reported that he has asked three of the priests to decide be tween their jobs and the priesthood in accordance with canon...
...Meinrad, a small Roman Catholic seminary in Indiana, is having trouble attracting students. Holsworth says in the past it has annually matriculated between 100 and 125 students--mostly from surrounding dioceses--but enrollment is now declining and the institution is having some difficulty convincing young men to entertain the priesthood...
Clad in simple white albs, 77 candidates for the priesthood prostrated themselves before the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica last week as the Supreme Pontiff invoked the blessings of the saints in heaven. Then, while the group knelt in four neat rows, Pope John Paul, followed by Monsignor Alvaro del Portillo, laid hands on the candidates' heads to convey to them the powers of priesthood...
...major goal now is to take these tools and bring them into studios," van Norman says. But, he continues, "many architects are understandably skeptical...we're dealing through the computer priesthood...
...outspoken antinuclear activist who has welcomed homosexual groups to his cathedral and allowed liturgical experimentation (see box). The Pope has directed other American bishops to investigate the 500 religious orders in the U.S. as well as the country's 300 seminaries, presumably to see whether candidates for the priesthood and their teachers have strayed from orthodoxy...