Word: priests
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...deacon is neither a priest nor a layman. He may not celebrate Mass or hear confessions, but he may officiate at baptisms, marriages and funerals, as well as preach. What is more, he can be a married man, provided he has married before becoming a deacon. Unmarried deacons must, like priests, take a vow of celibacy; all deacons make a promise of obedience to their bishops...
...priesthood and can accept candidates who would not qualify academically for present-day seminaries. Exactly what the new deacons should be, however, is still a matter of argument both inside and outside the program. Many of the deacons want to function as something other than a sort of assistant priest. One thought, backed by Belgium's Leo-Jo-zef Cardinal Suenens, is that they should serve as "activators of grassroots communities"-an idea enthusiastically received in such areas as Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods (a number of U.S. deacons are members of minorities: black, Chicano, and American Indian...
...Chester Kazek Jr., 46, married and the father of two teen-age daughters and an 11-year-old son, works 40 hours a week as program-library coordinator for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico. He also spends another 15-20 hours as the assistant pastor of priest-short Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Los Alamos, where he takes care of all baptisms, will soon perform several weddings, gives instruction to converts and visits the sick. "I always had it in the back of my mind to work for the Lord," he says...
...real life as well as in countless novels, plays and films, the arrival of a priest to administer the Roman Catholic sacrament of extreme unction has long had an ominous meaning: the patient was virtually given up for dead. Those whose condition was not in fact so grave could be given a nasty turn by the sight of the priest with his vial of holy oil. Now Pope Paul VI has changed all that. The sacrament, called "the anointing of the sick" since Vatican II, will hereafter be used not only for those who are in imminent danger of death...
Some of the new regulations seem simple conveniences. The holy oil need not be olive oil as heretofore required; any vegetable oil will do. No longer will the priest anoint all of the "five senses" (eyes, nostrils, mouth, ears, hands and feet). Instead he will anoint only the hands and forehead...