Word: priesting
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...Chief among Greek Orthodox grievances is the closure of a seminary to train priests on Halki island, just off Istanbul. Turkey closed the school in 1971 in line with strict secular laws that prohibit private religious higher education. Priests are currently trained in the U.S. and Greece. "Sure we can train priests elsewhere," says Karioutsos, "You can train a Catholic priest anywhere in the world, but training at the Vatican is completely different. We have a strong spiritual and historic connection here...
...does become a nun, Johnson would not be the first member of her family to devote her life to God. Her mother's brother, Daniel Deutsch, is a priest at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Batavia, Ill. At Sunday's mass, he spoke about Johnson's discernment. "Basically her stance is this: Lord I am going to do whatever you want me to do - it's up to you, I'm open," Deutsch told his congregation. "You want me to be a religious sister, I will do that because I have been discerning that. You want...
Historically, the decision to become a nun was a relatively simple one to make. "If a woman felt that she wanted to be a nun, she would just go to her parish priest and see what he thought," says Sister Sarah Roy, 29, a campus minister at the University of Illinois' St. John's Catholic Newman Center...
...worshipping Bono? Absolutely not. No more so than we worship Martin Luther when we sing A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." PAIGE BLAIR, Episcopal priest in York Harbor, Maine, who created a worship service in which U2's songs are used as hymns...
...recent release of director Amy Berg's Deliver Us from Evil, a profile of defrocked priest Oliver O'Grady, the most notorious pedophile in American Catholicism, has already resulted in front-page news stories and in O'Grady's departure from exile in Ireland, where newspaper accounts of the film made him a marked man. It renewed interest by the Los Angeles County district attorney in prosecuting the church hierarchy for its cover-up role in a narrative that both breaks the heart and angers the blood...