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1 - Feb 2016 - Reflection: Archbishop Fisher’s homily at 2016 Chrism Mass, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
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So too my dear brothers in the priesthood and my dear brothers and sisters the faithful of Sydney I have longed to celebrate Mass with you again while I have been suffering.
2 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS by Fr Gereon Goldmann, Chris Rule
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He also encouraged vocations to the priesthood.
3 - Feb 2016 - Liturgy: Holy Thursday: Pope changes feet-washing ceremony, AD2000 Report
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In the Roman Missal of St Pius V of 1570 the rite was reserved to the ordained priesthood but no number of persons is specified.
4 - Dec 2015 - Germany: Pope Francis deplores decline of Catholicism in Germany, AD2000 Report
The number of vocations for the priesthood and the consecrated life have drastically declined.
5 - Oct 2015 - Books: HOW THE REFORMATION HAPPENED, by Hilaire Belloc, Paul Simmons
To secular historians the Reformation was seen as an intellectual uprising against the tyranny of the priesthood and a more or less inevitable consequence of the new learning which followed the Renaissance.
6 - Aug 2015 - Confraternity of Christ the Priest’s Diamond Jubilee, Fr Thomas Casanova
Only the Church can confirm a vocation to the Priesthood.
7 - Jul 2015 - Culture: Magna Carta and Christianity: the inseparable links, Dr Augusto Zimmermann
As Nicolas Vincent points out Those who attended Langtons lectures would have heard him contrast the priesthood recruited by Moses with modern bishops recruited from the Exchequer in London.
8 - May 2015 - Vocations: The Call of Young Men to the Priesthood, Bishop Robert McGuckin
To young men I say be receptive to the call to priesthood!
9 - Apr 2015 - Books: THE MASS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, by Mike Aquilina, Paul Simmons
From the time of the Reformation in the 16th century the reformers attacked not only the abuses which were present in the church at the time including the trafficking in indulgences but the churchs teachings particularly those related to the Mass and the priesthood.
10 - Apr 2015 - Vocations: Australia's seminaries flourishing in 2015, Br Barry Coldrey
In the vast rural Port Pirie diocese in South Australia there had been no vocations to the priesthood in almost twenty years.
11 - Apr 2015 - Editorial: Welcome!
Other articles feature the extraordinary resurgence in vocations to the priesthood across Australia the controversial comments by Italian fashion designers on same-sex marriage feature articles by Anne Lastman and Audrey English and much more.
12 - Mar 2015 - Books: NOT ALL NUNS MAY DO THIS, by Erika Lorenz, Michael E. Daniel
However during an illness as a young man he decided to pursue theological studies for the priesthood.
13 - Mar 2015 - The parish priest and parish school, Fr John O'Neill
Dear brother parish priests please know what authority you have as using it in regard to schools helps place Christs holy priesthood where it should be: in the heart of the Church and in the loving hearts of our children.
14 - Dec 2014 - Obituary: Fr Benedict Groeschel, aged 81, dies in New Jersey, Peter Westmore
Father Groeschel completed his theological studies at the Capuchin Seminary of Mary Immaculate in Garrison New York in 1959 and in that year was ordained to the priesthood in New York.
15 - Dec 2014 - Dissent: New controversy erupts in Toowoomba, Peter Westmore
Many of these men have chosen to marry and have had to leave the priesthood.
16 - Nov 2014 - Why be a priest?, Fr John O'Neill
Celibacy Here we see why celibacy is so entwined into the priesthood: through the Sacrament of Order a mans love is absorbed by and lifted into the love of God the Son for God the Father and the Sons complete and direct love for all mankind.
17 - Nov 2014 - Youth: Ignite Conference fires up 1,200 young Catholics in Brisbane, Br Barry Coldrey
Ignite Youths experience of the past 14 years tells them that as a result of Ignite Conference more than 100 young people have taken up the call to discern a vocation to the priesthood or religious life with many others hearing the call to become more active in mission and ministry.
18 - Oct 2014 - Dissent: Bishop Bill Morris: gone but not forgotten, Peter Westmore
(Opinion ABC Religion and Ethics web site 7 February 2013) Bishop Morris book shows repeated disagreements with the Pope on a range of issues including women priests married priests confusion of Protestant orders with the Catholic priesthood unauthorised approval of general absolution instead of individual reconciliation and joint Sunday worship between Catholics and Anglicans where a priest of one denomination is absent for a period of time.
19 - Oct 2014 - The implications of Anglican women bishops, Fr Dwight Longenecker
Most of them left twenty years ago over the ordination of women to the priesthood.
20 - Oct 2014 - Do we construct the Church in our own image?, Fr Ken Clark
to many who belong to the Catholic laity and to the ranks of the priesthood itself who .
21 - Sep 2014 - Books: JOURNAL OF A SOUL (John XXIII) and POPE JOHN, BLESSED JOHN XXIII, Br Barry Coldrey
Journal of a Soul makes for inspiring reading covering as it does the popes thoughts tracing his spiritual development through adolescence the seminary priesthood a European papal diplomat Cardinal Patriarch of Venice and finally as Pope John XXIII.
22 - Sep 2014 - Art: The new mural in Sacred Heart Church, Griffith, NSW, Tommy Canning
Bread of Angels In this way the angels help those worshipping at Mass to fulfil their own baptismal priesthood: by assisting them in offering their own prayers works joys and sufferings in union with the one sacrifice of Jesus as represented by the ordained priest.
23 - Sep 2014 - Association of Hebrew Catholics: its role and mission, Andrew Sholl
Soon thereafter he left the South African Army became a Catholic and went to Avignon in the south of France to study for the priesthood with the Discalced Carmelites.
24 - Aug 2014 - Books: PRAY FOR ME The Life and Spiritual Vision of Pope Francis, by Robert Moynihan, Br Barry Coldrey
This covers his childhood years his ordination to the priesthood appointment as bishop elevation to the College of Cardinals and election to the papacy.
25 - Aug 2014 - Books: IN SEARCH OF CARDINAL STEPINAC: A Complete Biography, by Fr Zvonimir Gavranovic, Fr Steven Ledinich
After discerning a vocation to the priesthood and completing his studies in Rome he was ordained in 1930.
26 - Aug 2014 - Wilcannia-Forbes: An unusual but welcome ordination, Peter Westmore
This is a country diocese which was destined for closure a consequence of the decline in rural communities and of vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
27 - Jul 2014 - Summorum Pontificum: Growth of Latin Mass parishes and chaplaincies in Australia, Michael E. Daniel
One of the fruits of this movement has been the number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life which are arguably disproportionate to the number of Catholics involved.
28 - Jun 2014 - Fr Des Byrne: priest and catechist extraordinary, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
His priesthood may be set out in four different ways: his work as a pastor as a catechist as a man of prayer and his spiritual ministry to young people.
29 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency New English discernment house for vocations Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury England has announced plans for a house of discernment for potential priests emphasising the need for a renewed love for the priesthood.
30 - May 2014 - Priestly Fraternity of St Peter: progress report, Fr Damonn Sypher, FSSP
This novitiate Ezechiel House has as its purpose the formation of candidates from Australasia for the first year of studies towards the priesthood (year of spirituality).
31 - Apr 2014 - Vocations: Australia's flourishing seminaries 2014, Br Barry Coldrey
In 2013 the Bishops of the Queensland Province ordained ten men to the priesthood and this year there are 26 students at the Holy Spirit Seminary.
32 - Mar 2014 - Private revelations: Are they reliable?, John Young
There may be numerous vocations to the priesthood.
33 - Mar 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The priesthood is growing.
34 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (2), Anne Lastman
Affirming the dignity of man and woman is of immediate concern and if anyone has this task of advancing the dignity of women in the Church and society it is women themselves who must recognise their responsibility as leading characters (CL 49) and while not called to the apostolate of the twelve or the ministerial priesthood women were and are present in the life of Jesus even to the end (Lk 23:49); they too received and transmitted the Good News of the Resurrection.
35 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (1), Anne Lastman
Unlike the media hype which seems to focus on female priesthood this document clearly outlines the many charisms which the laity can fully and completely participate in and bring as gifts to the church and from there to the world in order to help sanctify it not from an ordained perspective but specifically because they are enmeshed within the milieu of daily life.
36 - Dec 2013 - Inspirational Young Men of God retreat, Br Barry Coldrey
This year the Missionaries have 14 young men in their two-year Novitiate in Canberra and over 30 in training for the priesthood in Melbourne.
37 - Oct 2013 - Blessed Jacinta Marto: heroine of Fatima, Cedric Wright
No long afterward he abandoned the priesthood and began a life of scandal.
38 - Oct 2013 - The priesthood and the Catholic faith, Fr John O'Neill PP
The Catholic faith cannot be separated from its priesthood no more than life-giving blood can flow without the heart.
39 - Oct 2013 - The Catholic Church is holy, despite its members' sins, Audrey English
Without the priesthood we would not have the Mass the moment of Calvary made present for us here and now.
40 - Oct 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Ordained to the priesthood in August 1980 he served in a number of parishes around Melbourne before he was ordained an Auxiliary Bishop in May 2003.
41 - Sep 2013 - Hobart's new Archbishop ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
Challenges As auxiliary bishop and a close associate of Cardinal George Pell for the past decade Bishop Porteous is well equipped to meet Tasmanias challenges: re-evangelising the Catholic population monitoring religion programs in schools bringing the Christian message on marriage family and life issues to the public square and inspiring more vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
42 - Aug 2013 - Books: FROM BROTHERHOOD TO PRIESTHOOD: Memoirs of Msgr William A. Mullins, Michael Gilchrist
FROM BROTHERHOOD TO PRIESTHOOD: The Memoirs of Monsignor William A.
43 - Aug 2013 - Books: FRANCIS: POPE OF A NEW WORLD, by Andrea Tornielli, Br Barry Coldrey
The author then follows Jorge Bergoglio through his teenage years to the moment he responded to Gods call to the priesthood to the day he entered the Society of Jesus and their emphasis on obedience discipleship and missionary work.
44 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore
These events have had a positive impact on the young people who participated in them leading to a measurable increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
45 - Jul 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
One address discussed sisters moving beyond the Church and beyond Jesus while letters from LCWR officers suggested corporate dissent from teachings such as the sacramental male priesthood and on homosexuality.
46 - Jun 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Vocations rising in England and Wales Vocations to the priesthood and religious life continue to rise in England and Wales.
47 - Apr 2013 - Books: THE SEVEN BIG MYTHS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by Christopher Kaczor, Father John Flynn LC
The causes for this opinion range from the Churchs opposition to abortion and contraception to the restriction of the priesthood to men.
48 - Apr 2013 - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's insights on the priesthood, Martin Tobin
Archbishop Sheen recalled in his autobiography Treasure in Clay that during his preparation for the priesthood at St Pauls Seminary which included a regular afternoon conference given by the spiritual director his mind was filled with light a light that suffused his intellect and illuminated his soul bringing with it an overwhelming conviction of the certitude of the Faith.
49 - Apr 2013 - Child sexual abuse: looking beyond the institutions, Anne Lastman
I began with mentioning that the Church is walking the road to Calvary and indeed it is; but this is the Churchs enemys ploy to divide and conquer and sadly the media plays right into their hands because it has the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church and its priesthood in its sights.
50 - Apr 2013 - Vocations: Australia's vocations springtime continues into 2013, Br Barry Coldrey
It has been a rewarding time as I have tried to foster a renewed culture of priesthood in the Province.
51 - Mar 2013 - Priestly celibacy: being one with Christ and His mission, Father John O'Neill PP
Some elements in the widespread discussion of the celibacy of the Catholic priesthood clearly show a failure to relate this beautiful charism to the nature of God as Three Persons loving each other infinitely and to the nature and purpose of the Incarnation of God the Son in the person of our God and Saviour Our Lord Jesus Christ.
52 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell
The Anglo-Catholic wing of the Anglican Church however has always claimed that Cranmer is only one of several defining moments for the Church of England and that the Anglican male priestly order is part of the priesthood of the Universal Church.
53 - Feb 2013 - Royal Commission: The Church in Australia faces moment of truth, Peter Westmore
For me personally this is one of the saddest times of my 43 years in the Catholic priesthood.
54 - Dec 2012 - Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
In 2012 the MGL have twelve young men doing their Novitiate in Canberra and another 30 men preparing for the priesthood at their house at St Benedicts Parish Burwood in Melbourne.
55 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The Archbishop who took office in March 2011 named five pastoral priorities: improving faith education encouraging vocations to the priesthood and religious life fostering Catholic identity and diversity promoting a culture of life and strengthening marriage and the family.
56 - Nov 2012 - Books: A MIDLIFE JOURNEY, by Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs
OCollins spent 13 years preparing to take his final vows before ordination to the priesthood.
57 - Nov 2012 - Books: CATHOLICISM: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, by Fr Robert Barron, Michael Gilchrist
In such situations when endeavouring to explain Catholicism (to both Catholics and non-Catholics) one would focus on its distinctive features such as the Mass the sacraments Mary the priesthood the bishops and popes as underpinned by the Churchs intellectual armoury of apologetics theology and philosophy.
58 - Nov 2012 - Hong Kong's Catholic Bishop interviewed
I was too young at that time and I did not have the maturity and the in-depth knowledge of the priesthood but the good example of our pastor planted the seed of the priestly vocation in my heart.
59 - Oct 2012 - Anglican Ordinariate: Melbourne ordinations: historic day for Church in Australia, Peter Westmore
The ordination of eight men to the Catholic priesthood in Melbourne on 8 September four of whom were former Anglican priests who have joined the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is a historic event for the Catholic Church in Australia.
60 - Sep 2012 - The Church's mission priority: to search for its 'lost sheep', Andrew Kania
Gospel message Congars critical comments came shortly after a rider that those who read his essay must understand the enormous esteem he held for the priesthood and those the vast majority of priests who are living out their vocation in an exemplary manner.
61 - Sep 2012 - Survey confirms crisis of faith in Ireland, Michael Gilchrist
At the same time the Church has been experiencing a drought of vocations with its priesthood contracting and growing older while the Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin warned recently that the Church in Ireland was in crisis and at breaking point.
62 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
00am ordinations to the priesthood will take place at St Patricks Cathedral East Melbourne with Archbishop Denis Hart presiding.
63 - Aug 2012 - Books: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE PRIESTLY BREAST: Procedural Justice, Michael Thomas
Hope Springs Eternal focuses on the American situation but its analysis would apply in varying degrees in other countries where allegations of clerical child abuse going back several decades have come to light with a resultant fire-storm of media criticism of the Church and the priesthood.
64 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Women priests, Francis Vrizmoed
Since Pope John Paul II made clear in his apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis that a male-only priesthood was definitive Church teaching and not open to debate any Catholic priest or lay person who holds this view is no longer a Church member in good standing.
65 - Aug 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Vocations increase in England and Wales It is expected that 38 men will be ordained for the priesthood in England and Wales in 2013 nearly double the number of ordinands in 2011 when 20 were ordained.
66 - Aug 2012 - Benedict XVI sets up Anglican Ordinariate for Australia, Monsignor Harry Entwistle
The first ordination to the Catholic priesthood to serve in the Ordinariate took place in Perth when the present writer was ordained and also named as the first Ordinary.
67 - Jul 2012 - Books: FR ALEXANDER MEN: Martyr of Atheism, by Michel Evdokimov, Michael Daniel
His first appointment was to Alabino his second and last to the Church of the Holy Meeting at Novaya Derevnia Throughout his priesthood Men was a fearless promoter of the Gospel and not cowed into submission by the KGB and its minions.
68 - Jul 2012 - Books: ANSWERING THE ANTI-CATHOLIC CHALLENGE, by Robert M. Haddad, Angela Schumann
In Chapter 3 Christ and the Mass Robert Haddad corrects numerous mistaken ideas about the Mass and priesthood including the concept of transubstantiation.
69 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Anti-Catholicism, Fr. M. Shadbolt
Of course the existence of any pedophiles in the priesthood is shameful and disgraceful.
70 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Reasons for Hope, Anthony English
There have been many friendships good marriages and vocations to the priesthood and religious life from groups such as these.
71 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Papal infallibility, Peter D. Howard
In posting on web discussion boards over some 15 years I have found one of the most misunderstood dogmas of the Church to be that contained in Pastor Aeternus of Vatican I and especially as it applies to the doctrine against contraception; but also as the case of Bishop Morris of Toowoomba revealed on the doctrine of the priesthood from Christ being only for males in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (Bl John Paul II 1994).
72 - Jun 2012 - NET Ministries: Another Catholic youth ministry success story, Br Barry Coldrey
In due course Sam joined a NET team for a year and at the beginning of 2012 he entered Corpus Christi Seminary Melbourne to prepare for the diocesan priesthood.
73 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Organisers described the event as a defence of faith family and the priesthood.
74 - May 2012 - Religious Freedom: Catholics in Iraq: a struggle for survival, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda
What was the greatest preparation for your priesthood?
75 - Apr 2012 - Vocations: Australia's seminary numbers continue their growth, Br Barry Coldrey
Over the past three years Cardinal Pell has ordained fourteen young men for the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Sydney.
76 - Mar 2012 - Books: The Spiritual Legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, by Rev. Charles P. Connor, Michael Daniel
The final chapters explore Sheens thoughts on prayer the Virgin Mary marriage the Eucharist and priesthood.
77 - Mar 2012 - Fulton Sheen Cause: progress report, Msgr Stanley Deptula
Working in the foundation has been a true blessing to my priesthood as I have had a chance to hear many stories from people who believe Archbishop Sheen has interceded for them in their lives.
78 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore
On completing his seminary formation he was ordained to the priesthood in 1970 and served for the next five years as a priest in the Prague Archdiocese.
79 - Feb 2012 - Books: SLO-MO TSUNAMI And Other Poems, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
Pope and Priesthood?
80 - Feb 2012 - Books: THE RETURN OF MODERNISM:The Second Wave Revisited, by Dr J.N. Santamaria, David Perrin
Modernism undermines the Magisterium of the Catholic Church denies that truth is absolute and immutable undermines dogmas of the Church perverts the notion of sin and redemption undermines the priesthood and the sacraments denies the mediation of Christ and His Church promotes a false theory of revelation and distorts the New Testament as a factual account of what Christ did and said.
81 - Dec 2011 - Vocations: Do not be afraid: successful Young Men of God retreat, Dr Barry Coldrey
There are twelve young men in a two-year novitiate in Canberra and another twenty studying for the priesthood at the (Melbourne) Catholic Theological College and living at the Missionaries seminary at St Benedicts Parish Burwood.
82 - Dec 2011 - Ad Limina Visit: Australia's Bishops reaffirm their unity with Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
In their statement the bishops said their meetings with Cardinals Ouellet and Levada had given us a more adequate understanding of what was done by the Holy See in an attempt to resolve the difficulties with Bishop Morris which concerned not only matters of Church discipline but also of Church doctrine definitively taught such as on the ministerial priesthood.
83 - Oct 2011 - Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership, Cardinal George Pell
That has changed now because vocations are coming from it and in the ten years this has been running in Sydney we have had nine vocations to the priesthood and four to the nuns from Sydney University alone.
84 - Aug 2011 - Bishop Conley on the new Missal translation: 'The very words of God', Bishop James Conley
It was chosen quite deliberately from Hebrews meditation on Christs heavenly high priesthood.
85 - Jul 2011 - Reflection: Christ's priestly promise: 'I am with you always', Fr John O'Neill
But he is most actively obvious through the lives of those he lifts up to his level when he ordains them into his priesthood.
86 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Letter to Toowoomba Chronicle, Zelda Richardson
Especially when you consider that upon his ordination to the priesthood and later as a bishop he made a vow of obedience.
87 - Jul 2011 - Universae Ecclesiae: Vatican document strengthens use of the traditional Latin liturgy, Fr Glen Tattersall
Here the Instruction underlines the obligation imposed on those concerned with priestly formation by Canon 249 which insists that those in preparation for the priesthood should be well versed in Latin.
88 - Jun 2011 - Books: JESUS OF NAZARETH: Holy Week, by Pope Benedict XVI, Fr Glen Tattersall FSSP
It is clear that at the Last Supper Our Lord instituted the Holy Eucharist and the Priesthood of the New Covenant.
89 - Jun 2011 - Cardinal Pell: 'liberalism has no young Catholic progeny', Cardinal George Pell
So too with priesthood and traditional Christian teaching on marriage divorce and sexuality.
90 - Jun 2011 - Australia's seminary numbers continue to increase, Br Barry Coldrey
The significant increase in vocations to the diocesan priesthood in Australia that became evident during the 1990s following the founding of the Wagga Wagga seminary by Bishop Brennan the leadership of Archbishop Hickey in Perth and the seminary reforms by Archbishop (now Cardinal Pell) in Melbourne and Sydney is continuing.
91 - May 2011 - Liturgy: Welcome to the new translation of the Missal, Audrey English
Infinite gift The priesthood of the laity means that we too offer ourselves our souls our lives.
92 - May 2011 - Interview: International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration in Rome, Father Florian Racine
Following on from the desire of Pope Benedict XVI ( Sacramentum Caritatis) to see emerging places of continuous adoration Cardinal Hummes in a document from the Congregation for the Clergy in 2007 asked that there be established at least one place of perpetual adoration in each diocese or large town in order to obtain the following graces: the sanctification of the clergy to make reparation for the faults of the clergy and also for new vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
93 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
At the same time more seminarians are studying for the priesthood in Africa and Asia but fewer in Europe.
94 - Mar 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
It sheds further light on Newmans spirituality of the priesthood.
95 - Mar 2011 - A bishop and his priests: united in truth with Christ, Fr John O'Neill
We his priests more than anyone have to show this to the world because of his priesthood that we share.
96 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Secular dictatorship In a particular way the Catholic university which is true to her identity will help students to be strong in giving an account of their faith in their vocation in life whether it be the married life the dedicated single life the consecrated life or the ordained priesthood and in whatever field of human endeavour they engage resisting the secularist dictatorship which would exclude all religious discourse from the professions and from public life in general.
97 - Mar 2011 - Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans: worldwide progress, Michael Gilchrist
Father Newton is one of three former Anglican bishops who were ordained to the Catholic priesthood on 15 January in Westminster Cathedral.
98 - Feb 2011 - Books: Christ Our High Priest, by Cardinal Albert Vanhoye, Br Barry Coldrey
The Retreat Spiritual Exercises explored the Epistle to the Hebrews in exhaustive detail and outlined the priesthood of every baptised person compared and contrasted with the ministerial priesthood limited to the ordained.
99 - Feb 2011 - Vocations: Following in the footsteps of St Francis of Assisi, Kay Cozad
But not all novices choose to study for the priesthood.
100 - Feb 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
He also highlighted the crisis of vocations to the priesthood noting that he recently presided at a Mass in memory of 20 priests who had died within the past 12 months.
101 - Dec 2010 - Books: EDMUND CAMPION, by Richard Simpson, revised by Peter Joseph, Fr Anthony Robbie
The testimony he gave during his defences itself reconverted several wavering Catholics and at the last the very blood of his martyrdom struck the clothing of an onlooker and inspired him to the Catholic priesthood (and eventually to Jesuit martyrdom as well).
102 - Dec 2010 - Youth: Another successful Australian Catholic youth initiative, Br Barry Coldrey
This is an impressive development when vocations to the priesthood and religious life have been sparse in recent years in Australia.
103 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service New seminary for Washington DC Cardinal-designate Donald Wuerl the Archbishop of Washington DC is seeing an increased interest in the priesthood in his archdiocese and announced on 20 October that the archdiocese would be opening a new seminary.
104 - Nov 2010 - Vocations: Priestly and religious vocations upsurge in the US, Tim Drake
The St Paul Seminary is welcoming 33 new seminarians this autumn bringing its total number of men studying for the priesthood to 92.
105 - Oct 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: The St Pat's Ballarat Tradition, by James Gilchrist, Cardinal George Pell
But it does have a number of ex-students studying for the priesthood (probably as good as any other Victorian school) and it certainly has more fine footballers playing in the AFL than at any time in its history.
106 - Oct 2010 - Books: THE PATH TO ROME: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Bishop David Robarts
The last by Linda Poindexter wife of a high profile military assistant to President Reagan is the most substantial providing us with considered responses to decisive Catholic teaching concerning the role of women the nature of priesthood abortion and gender issues.
107 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
The Council of Trent and the great Counter Reformation popes realised that the office of the priesthood is crucial to the vitality of the Church and that the proper preparation of priests is the major factor in achieving such an ambition.
108 - Sep 2010 - Vocations: The story of a grandmother and her love of the priesthood, Andrew Kania
Thus he unequivocally teaches that the essence of the priesthood is to walk in the footsteps of Christ.
109 - Aug 2010 - Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIEST IMAGE OF CHRIST: Through Fifteen Centuries of Art, Terri Kelleher
A feast for the eyes: a visual presentation of the priesthood THE CATHOLIC PRIEST IMAGE OF CHRIST: Through Fifteen Centuries of Art by Steen Heidemann (Gracewing 2009 hardback 320pp $120.
110 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Sacrament of Penance: whatever happened to confession?, Br Barry Coldrey
The clerical sexual abuse scandals have lowered the reputation of the priesthood.
111 - Aug 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XVI said that bishops are the administrators of the supreme priesthood and that they must truly make the liturgy an epiphany of the mystery that is expression of the genuine nature of the Church which actively offers worship to God through Christ in the Holy Spirit.
112 - Jul 2010 - Reflection: The challenge: how to spread God's word in a secular culture, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
And it could easily happen that the priesthood instituted by Jesus at the Last Supper as a unique gift to build up the Church becomes marginalised and no longer treasured as essential to the very life of the Church.
113 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs
From these movements come a disproportionate number of vocations to the priesthood and the religious life who will become the leaders of the Church.
114 - May 2010 - Books: BE TO ME A FATHER AND A PRIEST, by Fr Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Michael Daniel
It can be argued that this tragedy is one facet of what some commentators have described as a crisis of the priesthood.
115 - May 2010 - Parish life: A youth apostolate that works, Fr John O'Neill
Over 47 years of priesthood I have seen various attempts made to bring our youth to Christ and Christ to them.
116 - Apr 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: Doing it for the Jumper, by James Gilchrist, David Perrin
While 90 former St Pats students made it to VFL/AFL ranks over the years including two future Brownlow Medallists from the one years team the college has also sent out more than its share of recruits to the priesthood including two future Archbishops of Melbourne Frank Little and George Pell.
117 - Apr 2010 - Bishop Kevin Rhoades: Tribute to an outstanding American Church leader, Fr John Trigilio
During his short five years here in our diocese (2004-2009) we have seen a stable and permanent Extraordinary Form parish (Mater Ecclesiae) erected under the care of the Fraternity of Saint Peter; lots of vocations to the priesthood; and restoration of the permanent diaconate.
118 - Apr 2010 - Irish child abuse scandal and cover-ups: bishops meet with Pope, Michael Gilchrist
He also called for an improved human spiritual academic and pastoral preparation both of candidates for the priesthood and religious life and of those already ordained and professed.
119 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The number of candidates to the priesthood has also grown slightly from 115919 in 2007 to 117024 in 2008.
120 - Mar 2010 - Foundations of Faith: What the Second Vatican Council really said, John Young
A little further on the Decree says that students for the priesthood should study theology under the guidance of St Thomas (n.
121 - Mar 2010 - Year for the Priest: English-speaking clergy: first ever international conference, Fr Glen Tattersall
All of the talks were of the highest standard and treated a variety of topics: priestly identity and spirituality current challenges to the priesthood and the Sacred Liturgy.
122 - Feb 2010 - Letters: New priests for the Sydney Archdiocese, Fr Michael De Stoop
When his first thoughts turned to the priesthood he consulted with Fr Michael OBrien and received much encouragement from Fr Murray and his aunt Sr Margaret RSJ when he was in Allora Queensland.
123 - Feb 2010 - Editorial: A new decade but the same challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
The Sydney seminary like other Australian seminaries where much-needed reforms have taken place in recent years continues to attract highly qualified aspirants to the priesthood.
124 - Dec 2009 - Books: THE MASS AND THE SAINTS, by Thomas Crean OP, Br Barry Coldrey
As well as the fundamental and awe-inspiring nature of the Mass and the Eucharist two of the overriding elements conveyed by The Mass and the Saints are the importance of tradition and the priesthood.
125 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Complementarity, Kathleen Wood
Further study and understanding of this profound matter should include a careful reading of the documents Ordinatio Sacerdotalis and Inter Insigniores together with the book The Catholic Priesthood and Women by Sara Butler MSBT in order to read a splendid articulation of the Churchs position on why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women.
126 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Women priests, Ken Bayliss
Like the Catholic Church the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches restrict the priesthood to male candidates.
127 - Dec 2009 - Episcopacy: Church leadership responsibilities: an American case study, Phil Lawler
Given Bishop Gumbletons very public position on certain important matters of Catholic teaching specifically with regard to homosexuality and the ordination of women to the priesthood it was my judgment that his presence in Marquette would not be helpful to me in fulfilling my responsibility (emphasis mine).
128 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
He said the particular identity of priests and laity must be seen in the light of the essential difference between priestly ministry and the common priesthood of the baptised.
129 - Oct 2009 - Books: AFTER THE HEART OF GOD, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Br Michael McMurray CCS
He draws on his years of experience in the formation of future priests as well as his own time of priesthood to examine the years since the Second Vatican Council while considering in detail todays sources of priestly vocations.
130 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
For further reading Sr Sara Butlers The Catholic Priesthood and Women is recommended.
131 - Oct 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Cutting edge moral issues for the third millennium, Br Barry Coldrey
And so with such a tolerant parish priest Father Greg is saved continues in the priesthood accepts his homosexuality and his gay lover and they all live happily ever after.
132 - Oct 2009 - Seminary Life: Spiritual direction at Sydney's Good Shepherd Seminary, Fr Paul Glynn SM
We had been stunned by the number of priests worldwide who were leaving the priesthood.
133 - Oct 2009 - Priestly Identity: Renewing the priesthood in the Year for Priests, Fr Anthony Denton
His writings on the priesthood have been both personal and profound.
134 - Sep 2009 - Priesthood: Reflections of a newly ordained Sydney priest, Fr James Mccarthy
Three days earlier on Thursday 30 April in Sydney Australia the Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell ordained four men to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ the largest Ordination for Sydney since 1988.
135 - Aug 2009 - Priesthood: Benedict XVI's Letter to priests: follow example of the Curé of Ars
The saintly Cureacute; of Ars would often say The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus.
136 - Jul 2009 - Books: LIKE A SAMURAI: The Tony Glynn Story, by Fr Paul Glynn SM, Tim Cannon
The centrality of the Catholic faith to the lives of Tonys parents (and certain other relations) is shown to be of vital importance to the fruition of many graces - including several vocations to the priesthood and religious life - among Tony and his siblings.
137 - Jul 2009 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Bible, by Peter Stravinskas, Br Barry Coldrey
In over 30 years of active priesthood he has written hundreds of articles for Catholic newspapers and journals in addition to 20 books of which The Catholic Church and the Bible is one.
138 - Jul 2009 - St Marys Cathedral: Sydney ordinations and a new beginning for Australian Catholicism, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ
On Thursday night 30 April Cardinal George Pell ordained four young men to the priesthood in St Marys Cathedral Sydney.
139 - Jun 2009 - Vocations: Brisbane's Holy Spirit Seminary: promising signs of growth, Anthony Barich
Msgr Randazzo says that todays seminarians still show much enthusiasm for Eucharistic Adoration rushing back for it from their academic studies at Australian Catholic University every Thursday when they pray for vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.
140 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Dissent, Peter D. Howard
It is high time that both the hierarchy and Msgr Randazzo face the reality of the confusion and dissent promoted within some departments of the ACU for example in Dr Ian Elmers public challenge to Catholic teaching on the priesthood (23 November 2008) see www.
141 - Apr 2009 - Andrew Cichy: A bold project to reinvigorate Church music in Australia, Anthony Barich
His stay in Perth was brief: sensing Lynchs vocation to the priesthood Archbishop Clune sent Lynch to Rome in 1930 to study at Propaganda Fide College.
142 - Mar 2009 - Marian Valley, spiritual oasis for young Brisbane Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
The Order has two young Australians training for the priesthood at a Roman seminary and another young man doing his Novitiate in Poland.
143 - Mar 2009 - American seminaries mostly 'healthy', but many problems remain
Issued at the height of the clerical abuse scandal the meetings final communique called for a new and serious Apostolic Visitation of seminaries and other institutes of formation must be made without delay with particular emphasis on the need for fidelity to the Churchs teaching especially in the area of morality and the need for a deeper study of the criteria of suitability of candidates to the priesthood.
144 - Feb 2009 - Reflection: Pope St Gregory the Great's advice to bishops and priests, Pope St Gregory the Great
For it is a fact that anyone entering the priesthood accepts the office of herald and must by his words prepare the way for the terrible judgment of the one who follows.
145 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Inclusive language, Eamonn Keane
All of this is present in Groomes on-going assault upon Catholic sacramental realism something that is evidenced in his continuing propaganda against the Catholic Churchs doctrine on the ministerial priesthood.
146 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
In an interview with LOsservatore Romano on the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood Cardinal Arinze explained that a different placement of the sign of peace is under consideration.
147 - Feb 2009 - The Statement of Conclusions: any signs of progress after ten years?, Michael Gilchrist
Your meetings with some of the Congregations of the Roman Curia have focused on questions of doctrine and morality the liturgy the role of the Bishop evangelisation and mission the priesthood religious life and Catholic education.
148 - Dec 2008 - Books: Down in Adoration Falling, by Gareth Grainger, Br Christian Moe, FSC
Early however he was attracted to the more solemn and inspiring Anglican ritual which led him (in 1950) to enter the Anglican Church and eventually (1951) be ordained to its priesthood.
149 - Dec 2008 - Letters: Strange 'bedfellows', J. Loring
How strange then that in regard to such issues as that sex should be restricted to a man and a woman in marriage and that only men have ever been ordained to the priesthood these same and other like-minded persons tell us the Church needs to be dragged into the 21st century and change - and that 2000 years of verifiable Church tradition should apparently and rather conveniently be ignored.
150 - Dec 2008 - Novus Ordo: Vatican approves new Missal translation, Michael Gilchrist
The present translation put in place almost 40 years ago is grossly inaccurate reflecting haste the cultural climate of the time and fashionable theologies that emphasised the Mass as a meal or community gathering and blurred distinctions between the ministerial priesthood and the priesthood of the baptised.
151 - Sep 2008 - Reflection: Archbishop Burke of St Louis: the responsibilities of a bishop, Archbishop Raymond Burke
Work to provide ever more effective helps for young men whom our Lord is calling to the priesthood so that they may hear His call and courageously embrace it.
152 - Sep 2008 - Books: Saving Those Damned Catholics, by Judie Brown, Catherine Sheehan
Homosexuality The recent sex abuse scandals involving Catholic clergy have been used by opponents of the Church and those critical of a celibate priesthood to further their case.
153 - Sep 2008 - Letters: Sex abuse apology (letter), M.J. Gonzalez
People with unnatural sexual tendencies have no place in the priesthood nor the religious orders.
154 - Sep 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Priesthood and the sacraments: Divine help for eternal salvation, Br Barry Coldrey
Meanwhile there are a number of levels of the priesthood: By the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation the whole community of the People of God shares in the priesthood of the faithful.
155 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Faith: alive and well! - A pilgrim's progress, Catherine Sheehan
At Darling Harbours Exhibition Centre there was a massive Vocations Expo featuring stalls set up by different religious orders and various seminaries and information about the priesthood.
156 - Aug 2008 - Priesthood: St Louis: another US vocations success story, AD2000 Report
The people who are attracted to the priesthood today tend to be much more conservative than their peers said Fr Thomas Reese SJ of the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington.
157 - Jul 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
au The Catholic Priesthood and Women Sara Butler MSBT Sister Sara Butler a former advocate of womens ordination provides a clear concise easy to follow defence and exposition of the Catholic Churchs traditional teaching on the subject.
158 - Jul 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
This leads in turn to the questioning of Catholic teaching on among other things the nature of Tradition the inspiration of the Holy Scripture the infallibility of the Councils and the Pope the authority of the Creeds the nature of the ministerial priesthood and central elements of the Churchs moral teaching.
159 - Jun 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
The Catholic Priesthood and Women Sara Butler MSBT Sister Sara Butler a former advocate of womens ordination provides a clear concise easy to follow defence and exposition of the Catholic Churchs traditional teaching on the subject.
160 - Jun 2008 - Books: FR WERENFRIED: A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael E. Daniel
In 1934 he sensed a religious vocation and joined the Norbertines at Tongerlo Abbey in Belgium taking the religious name Werenfried and was ordained to the priesthood on 25 July 1940.
161 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
We were hoping the Pope would convince many who were considering the priesthood to make the next step.
162 - May 2008 - Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
The revival of adoration of Christ in the Eucharist is associated with the rise in vocations to the priesthood since 2000 and is a positive result of the hard work of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI to restore strong devotions marginalised since the Second Vatican Council.
163 - May 2008 - Magisterium: When is it infallible?, John Young
When the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was asked about the status of the decision that the Church has no power to ordain women to the priesthood it replied that it is infallible by the infallibility of the ordinary and universal Magisterium (Reply to dubium LOsservatore Romano English edition 22 November 1995).
164 - Apr 2008 - Progress report: AD2000's worldwide outreach via the Internet, Francis Young
Perennial top ten searches include Oscar Romero Hound of Heaven priesthood vocations marriage and various bioethical issues including euthanasia and embryonic stem cells.
165 - Mar 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
95 Called to Communion Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Subtitled Understanding the Church Today Cardinal Ratzingers compact book analyses the origin of the Church the primacy of Peter the role of bishops and the nature of the priesthood in the light of Scripture and the development of doctrine today.
166 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Married clergy, Frank Bellet
I might add if the teachings of the Church had not been watered down or even drowned by trendies in the pulpits and schools thered be less of a crisis attracting prayerful young men to the priesthood.
167 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: Signs of hope in US diocese
Some of our parishes have three or four guys who are in the seminary and many have zero he said noting that there are about 20 parishes represented among the men currently preparing for the priesthood.
168 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: The priesthood: a special relationship with Christ, Fr Pat Stratford
There is also the suggestion that those priests who have left the priesthood and married should be allowed to practise once more as priests - I do not think that many would be interested.
169 - Mar 2008 - Tribute: B.A. Santamaria: ten years on, Cardinal George Pell
His large extended family his many friends (and he had a gift for friendship) his dedicated co-workers from the Movement and then the NCC were there of course with some bishops and his allies in the priesthood.
170 - Feb 2008 - A remarkable father remembered, Maria Rankin
Thanks to the work of the Catholic Evidence Guild during the middle years of the 20th century there were many vocations to the priesthood and religious life as well as many conversions.
171 - Feb 2008 - Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq, Babette Francis
First Communion With new ordinations to the priesthood and children receiving their first Holy Communion the Christian community in Iraq refuses to give in to the systematic persecution it is subjected to.
172 - Feb 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Let me give three examples: Recently the Collins/Purcell petition has been seeking to present to the Australian Bishops a request concerning the criteria for ordination to the priesthood.
173 - Dec 2007 - Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND WOMEN by Sara Butler MSBT, Paul Woodbury
THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND WOMEN A Guide to the Teaching of the Church by Sara Butler MSBT (Hillenbrand Books 2007 122pp $37.
174 - Dec 2007 - Letters: True Church, Peter D. Howard
She acknowledges many truths in other ecclesial communities but not seven sacraments not a valid priesthood and no Eucharistic sacrifice therefore and no Magisterium.
175 - Dec 2007 - Architecture: Did Vatican II recommend the removal of altar rails?, M. Cassey
The altar rails maintain the status quo of heavenly aspiration and earth-bound endeavour the distinction of sanctuary from nave the hierarchy of the priesthood the protection of the Holy of Holies.
176 - Nov 2007 - Prayer: John Paul II and the Rosary, Fr. M. Durham
Jesus instituting the Eucharist and the ministerial priesthood at the Last Supper.
177 - Nov 2007 - Letters: Teachings rejected by Bishop Robinson, Kevin McManus
Clerical celibacy and the male priesthood.
178 - Nov 2007 - Poetry: A poem on the priesthood - Among the Apostles, John O'Neill
On 21 July Fr ONeill celebrated 45 years of his priesthood and included this poem in his parish bulletin with the words: It is my hope that some day someone from our parish will join those privileged ranks and discover what I have tried to express in the following poem.
179 - Nov 2007 - Australia's Missionaries of God's Love congregation continues to grow, Mary Pidcock
He believes many young people today are genuinely seeking to live a radical gospel way of life and that we can expect a new surge of vocations to consecrated life and the priesthood in the future.
180 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
As for women priests the Bishop remains unimpressed by the arguments put forward to claim that women cannot be ordained to the priesthood .
181 - Sep 2007 - A successful quest for vocations in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
The Quo Vadis recollection evenings on the last Friday of the month enable young men in discernment to meet for prayer reflection and a meal together The annual Directed Retreat caters for young men who are focused strongly on vocation to the priesthood or religious life.
182 - Sep 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
After overcoming many difficulties he was ordained to the priesthood in Paris in 1954.
183 - Aug 2007 - Why Catholic parents choose home-schooling, Leslie Sammut
If the same percentage existed for the 3250 boys who graduated from Catholic high schools in the same period there would be about 750 preparing for the priesthood he said.
184 - Aug 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The Eastern churches the document notes have true sacraments and above all - because of the apostolic succession - the priesthood and the Eucharist.
185 - Aug 2007 - Lex orandi: Benedict XVI's liturgical armistice: 'Summorum Pontificum', Fr Glen Tattersall
If the Popes insistence in Sacramentum Caritatis that seminarians are to learn how to celebrate Mass in Latin is to be taken seriously and if we are now assured in Summorum Pontificum that there is but one Roman Rite with two usages it is not out of order to expect students for the priesthood to be given the opportunity to learn to how to celebrate both usages of their own Rite.
186 - Jul 2007 - Reflection: Bishop Robert Finn on what it means to be a Catholic priest, Bishop Robert Finn
Dear sons you are to be raised to the order of the priesthood.
187 - Jul 2007 - Priesthood: Praying for priests: The Society of Christ Priest and Victim, Barry O'Brien
The late Pope John Paul II when he was a seminarian training for the priesthood in Poland regularly prayed the Litany of Christ Priest and Victim.
188 - Jul 2007 - Poetry: A legacy of virtue: the remarkable Craig sisters, Fr John Lea McDaniels FSSP
Marions and Delias respect for the priesthood bordering almost on veneration often left Father Tattersall and myself in a humbled state of silence.
189 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
In particular great concern must be shown for vocations to the priesthood and to consecrated life.
190 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
education liturgy priesthood and religious life healthcare youth ministry and social justice.
191 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: Bill Daly RIP: fearless defender of Catholic orthodoxy in Australia, Fr James Tierney
There is much more that Bill Daly did to promote and defend the faith including writing a book on the priesthood.
192 - Jun 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
In 2003 the figure stood at 28; last year this had risen to 44 bringing the total number of men studying for the priesthood for the dioceses of England and Wales to 150.
193 - May 2007 - Vocations: New religious communities flourishing in the United States, Fr James Lloyd
They respect the priesthood (even knowing that some priests are rebels nerds or unfaithful).
194 - Apr 2007 - Vocations: New survey of successful US dioceses: lessons for Australia, Michael Gilchrist
The change in the size of the priesthood and the effort invested in increasing vocations and adult receptions do say something fundamental about the state of the dioceses.
195 - Apr 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The numbers of candidates to the priesthood both diocesan and religious increased overall from 113044 in 2004 to 114439 in 2005 (an increase of 1.
196 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Null and void, Fr. G.H. Duggan SM
Hence any attempt to ordain a woman to the Catholic priesthood would be null and void.
197 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools, Kevin McBride
Gratification was expressed on all sides when many of these children were inspired by what they learnt from dedicated teachers and what they experienced of a Catholic culture to embrace vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
198 - Mar 2007 - Sandhurst: Goddess worship at Victorian education conference?, Michael Gilchrist
Public criticism The choice of Bishop Pat Power an auxiliary bishop of Canberra- Goulburn Archdiocese as one of the speakers seems unlikely to help in this regard since Bishop Power has been publicly critical of Church teachings including on a male priesthood and in the general area of sexuality.
199 - Mar 2007 - WYDSYD08: Salesian provincial urges parishes to sponsor Timorese to World Youth Day 2008, Peter Westmore
Speaking at the Thomas More Centre on 8 February Fr Calleja said that unless such support were given it would be impossible for many young Catholics in East Timor to attend World Youth Day which has had a remarkable effect in encouraging vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
200 - Mar 2007 - Editorial: How we can help young East Timorese, Peter Westmore
It is to be hoped that a similarly large number of young Australians will respond to the challenge of World Youth Day by considering seriously a vocation to the priesthood or religious life.
201 - Feb 2007 - Reflection: Why the Church must continue to uphold priestly celibacy, Fr Pat Stratford
We priests need to show by word and example that we are in fact happy in our vocation to the priesthood.
202 - Feb 2007 - Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
The autobiography provides a close snapshot of small town America and the Catholic schools and universities of the early 20th century prior to Sheens call to the priesthood.
203 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
These priests Commonweal continued were guilty of adhering to a cultic model of the priesthood that stressed the essential difference between clergy and laity that saw the priest as a man set apart whose job is providing the sacraments teaching the Catholic Churchs doctrine and being a model of faith and devotion.
204 - Feb 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
While we continue to reflect carefully on these options we remain committed to actively promoting vocations to the current celibate male priesthood and open to inviting priests from overseas .
205 - Dec 2006 - A 'best practice' guide to priestly vocations
For example there is the bishop who needs to be holy with a lifestyle which imitates the poverty of Christ who promotes the Sacrament of Penance chooses a dedicated vocations director and his team with the greatest care communicates to all that the priesthood is great and beautiful and checks to ensure seminarians are receiving correct and balanced formation.
206 - Dec 2006 - 'Lost!' controversy: Archbishop Bathersby's reply, AD2000 Report
If the priesthood is devalued when lay people are seemingly presented as substitutes who would wish to enter a seminary with all the sacrifices that entails?
207 - Dec 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Yet above all it falls to you the bishops and to your clergy to offer young people an inspiring and attractive vision of the ordained priesthood.
208 - Dec 2006 - Benedict XVI challenges 'de-Christianisation' of society, Michael Gilchrist
with a view to discernment and to the profound human spiritual cultural and pastoral formation of candidates to the priesthood.
209 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Common sense and married clergy, Errol Duke
Recently I used this example to dampen a conversation by two Catholic friends who were advocating a married priesthood.
210 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Faith and reason, Peter D. Howard
Despite the redemption Christ knew that our fallen nature needs Gods special help (grace) to do His Will - hence the seven sacraments the priesthood the Eucharistic sacrifice with His Body and Blood and the teaching authority all instituted by Him for we have to make up for what is lacking in Christs afflictions for His body which is the Church (Col.
211 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The new fraternity will include five priests and a number of seminarians including several who are in line for ordination to the priesthood shortly.
212 - Oct 2006 - Spanish bishops attack false theologies, AD2000 Report
In an analogous way some deny the distinction between the common priesthood of the faithful and the ministerial priesthood.
213 - Sep 2006 - Conscience: AD2000 interviews Cardinal Pell, Cardinal George Pell
Therefore it was a surprise to read in an interview celebrating fifty years of priesthood his attack on myself the Pope (unnamed) and a number of important Catholic teachings.
214 - Aug 2006 - Reflection: The importance of early baptism, John Young
Further By this very fact the person baptized is incorporated into the Church the Body of Christ and made a sharer in the priesthood of Christ.
215 - Aug 2006 - Books: SNOW ON THE HEDGES: A Life of Cuthbert Mayne, by Helen Whelan, Michael E. Daniel
He then travelled to the continent was ordained a priest and returned to Cornwall where he exercised his priesthood for a number of months in secret under cover of being the steward of Golden Manor in the employment of Francis Tregian who himself was to be imprisoned for a number of years and exiled for his adherence to Catholicism.
216 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
It was inspiring to hear the faith journey of a man who had committed himself to God and the priesthood in such difficult times for the Church and laity.
217 - Aug 2006 - Scripture and Tradition: sources of divine revelation, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Women priests In our own day John Paul II settled the dispute about the ordination of women to the priesthood in the same way.
218 - Aug 2006 - Does Wollongong's Catholic Education Office endorse dissent?, AD2000 Report
Treston asserted further that in the fourth century the priesthood emerged from the office of the presbyter while in his supportive Foreword to this book Thomas Groome expressed the view that with its publication Treston was making a mighty contribution to the ongoing faith development of our catechists and teachers(p.
219 - Aug 2006 - Victoria-Tasmania: Continued growth in vocations at Melbourne's Corpus Christi seminary, Joan Clements
This is one of the ways that Fr Denton makes contact with young men who may recognise that God is calling them to the priesthood.
220 - Aug 2006 - Priesthood: Promoting vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Fr Anthony Denton
Acting on behalf of the Archbishop I am the first port of call for those men wanting to pursue a vocation to the diocesan priesthood.
221 - Aug 2006 - Canberra-Goulburn: Archbishop Coleridge: Benedict's first Australian appointment, Anh Nguyen
Mark Coleridge was ordained to the priesthood on 18 May 1974 after completing a BA at Melbourne University.
222 - Aug 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The negative results included the abandonment of the sacred and the mystical the confusion between the common priesthood of all the faithful and the ordained ministry and the concept of the Eucharist as a common banquet rather than a representation of Christs Sacrifice.
223 - Jul 2006 - Internet pornography: raising the alarm, Fr Stephen J. Rossetti
His latest book is The Joy of Priesthood (Ave Maria Press).
224 - Jul 2006 - US Archbishop: how to reform the Liturgy
The 1962 Missal is the rite of the Mass that I grew up with until I was in high school and it inspired my vocation to the priesthood.
225 - Jul 2006 - Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how, AD2000 Report
While mentioning a number of these that are very important he called vocations to the priesthood and religious life his super- priority.
226 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The number of candidates to the priesthood however has grown constantly worldwide from 64000 to 113000 between 1978 and 2004.
227 - Jun 2006 - Education: Why do CEOs use Groome's RE method?, AD2000 Report
After suggesting St Pauls writings contain contradictory state- ments reflecting the struggle of these traditions Sr Fiedler adds Jesus in the gospel represented the egalitarian ideal emphasising love and ministerial service rather than law and tradition Eacute; Since he never ordained anyone - male or female - to a ministerial priesthood as we understand it today his counter- cultural attitude toward gender roles suggests that he intended women to minister in the community as the equals of men (p.
228 - Jun 2006 - Vocations: Sydney seminary's growth continues, Michael Gilchrist
Sydneys success at attracting more students for the priesthood can be attributed in part to Cardinal Pells high profile leadership as well as a successful vocations program run by auxiliary Bishop Anthony Fisher.
229 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Seminaries full in southern India Vocations in India are flourishing as increasing numbers of young men step forward to prepare for the priesthood.
230 - May 2006 - Reflection: Oneness in Christ: the heart of the priesthood, Fr John W. O'Neill PP
Coming straight to the point: the heart of the priesthood of the Catholic Church can be discovered in that mysterious incident when the fishing partners Simon and Andrew James and John were cleaning their net after a nights work on the Lake of Galilee.
231 - May 2006 - Foreign priests - a tale of two Brisbane parishes, Bob Osmak
At the Mass for youth that I attended he directly challenged the young people in the congregation to consider vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
232 - May 2006 - Benedict's first twelve months: 'We Are Church' delivers its verdict, Michael Gilchrist
This was evident with one of the first documents licensed by Pope Benedict XVI the Vatican Instruction on Homosexuality and Ordained Ministry which IMWAC said discriminates against homosexual men entering priesthood and was very disappointing to many Catholics not just to those who are most directly affected.
233 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
It says a person with deep- seated homosexual tendencies is not suited for the priesthood he pointed out.
234 - Apr 2006 - Books: Fr Martin D'Arcy: Philosopher of Christian Love, by H.J.A. Sire, Michael E. Daniel
Ordained to the priesthood in 1921 DArcys academic formation included studies at Oxford.
235 - Apr 2006 - 1973 Decree: A Fourth Rite of Reconciliation for Queensland?, AD2000
Involved here as well is a further blurring of the distinction between the ministerial priesthood and the priesthood of the laity.
236 - Mar 2006 - Letters: St John Vianney, Maureen Wright
I particularly liked the informative article on St John Vianney and the priesthood (December/January AD2000).
237 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
I refer of course to the precipitous fall in Mass attendance over the last forty years the ignorance of Catholic teaching and traditions among our Catholic and State school leavers the lack of statistical difference between Catholics and the population at large in marriage breakdowns and remarriage in the use of contraception the frequency of abortion the lack of courage to publicly afffirm Catholic teaching among lay leaders in society the collapse of Religious Institutes and vocations to the priesthood to name a few.
238 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XVI comments on seminary formation On 20 January Pope Benedict XVI received the rector and students of the diocesan seminary of Rome the Almo Collegio Capranica which forms students to the priesthood for Rome other Italian dioceses and the rest of the world.
239 - Feb 2006 - Books: For the Life of the World:St Maximilian and the Eucharist, by Fr Jerzy Domanski, Michael Gilchrist
Included are sections devoted to the priesthood the celebration of Mass Eucharistic adoration and the role of Mary.
240 - Feb 2006 - Books: The Pope Benedict Code, by Joanna Bogle, Michael Gilchrist
These snippets (together with linking narratives and commentaries) are grouped under such key headings as the Eucharist Sunday observance confession the Church papal authority the priesthood ecumenism the one true Church sanctity of human life catechetics and young people and the Churchs future.
241 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Ars priests retreat, Fr Robert Markey
It was with great interest that I read Fr John Cihaks article St John Vianneys blueprint for the priesthood back in favour (December-January AD2000).
242 - Feb 2006 - The Church of England: beyond satire?, Rev Peter Mullen
There were more men offering themselves for the priesthood than at any time since before the First World War.
243 - Feb 2006 - Priestly vocations: the key role of bishops, John Mallon
The meeting was to discuss ideas to increase vocations to the priesthood because the diocese was facing a crisis.
244 - Feb 2006 - Liturgical Music: The spiritual impact of Msgr. Richard Schuler's priestly leadership and example, Fr John T. Zuhlsdorf
Priestly vocations Together with his work as a church musician in a parochial setting Msgr Schuler is also distinguished for the many vocations to the priesthood he has fostered and on many occasions defended from attack.
245 - Feb 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop William Skylstad President of the US Bishops Conference described the Instruction as a timely document adding that the Congregation for Catholic Education is exercising a Christian realism about what is expected in candidates for the priesthood.
246 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
The Church names him as patron because this humble priest assigned to the backwaters of south-eastern post-revolutionary France reveals things perennial about the priesthood and priestly ministry.
247 - Nov 2005 - Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist: areas for remedial action identified, Peter Westmore
financial and weaken the sign value of the priesthood.
248 - Nov 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Priests who have already been ordained if they suffer from homosexual impulses are strongly urged to renew their dedication to chastity and a manner of life appropriate to the priesthood.
249 - Oct 2005 - Books: What is Opus Dei?, by Dominique le Tourneau, Michael Gilchrist
As with the priesthood those who enter need to have had a reasonable experience of the world to possess a balanced temperament and to under- stand the implications of any decisions they make.
250 - Oct 2005 - Priesthood: Christ's call to priestly celibacy, Fr Thaddeus Doyle
I firmly believe that several men left the priesthood who would not have left had they beeen told the full truth concerning the apostolic origins of priestly celibacy.
251 - Oct 2005 - Benedict XVI speaks out on the crisis of faith in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Your meetings with some of the Congregations of the Roman Curia have focused on questions of doctrine and morality the liturgy the role of the Bishop evangelisation and mission the priesthood religious life and Catholic education.
252 - Oct 2005 - Editorial: Health of Church and health of family connect, Michael Gilchrist
The steep decline in Mass attendances the low level of observance of the Churchs moral teachings the relative few entering the priesthood and religious life all connect with the parlous state of the family - including the decline in numbers of children.
253 - Sep 2005 - Education: Catholic schools of the future, Br John Moylan CFC
They were schools for boys and girls who believed they were called to the priesthood or religious life.
254 - Sep 2005 - Interview: Benedict XVI and the power of the Eucharist, Fr John Corapi
It seems to me however he was also very interested in the restoration of the priesthood and in the sacred liturgy.
255 - Sep 2005 - Priesthood: America's 'vocation rich' dioceses: latest success stories analysed, AD2000 Report
Weve been blessed with two back-to-back strong unabashed Catholic archbishops for whom vocations and priesthood are extremely important.
256 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
AsiaNews reported that the official seminaries in China have 1000 students training for the priesthood while the underground Church has about 800 seminarians.
257 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
The dramatic fall-off in applicants for the priesthood beginning about the early seventies had various causes.
258 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter
He consulted his parish priest and confided to him that for the very first time in his life and quite out of the blue he had begun to think about a vocation to the priesthood.
259 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Chicago Archdioceses ordinations increase During a three-hour ceremony at Chicagos Cathedral in May Cardinal Francis George ordained 16 men to the priesthood - the largest ordination class of any diocese in the United States.
260 - Jun 2005 - Reflection: Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan: witness to the priesthood and Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
There is no Eucharist without priesthood just as there can be no priesthood without the Eucharist.
261 - Jun 2005 - Books: John Paul the Great, edited by William Oddie, John R. Barich
She is bold enough to suggest that for this and for his radical application of a theological anthropology to sexual ethics and his defence of the priesthood and the Church against all deconstructions he may one day be declared a Doctor of the Church.
262 - Jun 2005 - He was my Pope, too: a Lutheran's appreciation of John Paul II, Uwe Siemon-Netto
On the other hand Catholic seminaries in many parts of the world are filling up with a new and extraordinarily manly crop of candidates for the priesthood - manly like the pope whose example they follow.
263 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist
He was especially forthright: How much filth there is in the Church and even among those who in the priesthood ought to belong entirely to him!
264 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
Father Alexander who comes from Britains beautiful county of Dorset where his family has lived for generations attended Eton College and the University of Edinburgh then studied for the priesthood in Rome.
265 - May 2005 - Year of Eucharist: Religious education: Catholic youth have their say, Shannon Donahoo
However when you have school delegates in attendance who are essentially agnostic or Islamic or merely benignly ignorant about the Catholic faith - and when these representatives readily question the divinity of Christ and the need for the priesthood (or the Church for that matter) - it is inappropriate to offer unreserved acclaim for Catholic education as a whole.
266 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Dissent, Fr John Speekman
Later in the article he says they and presumably he would resign from the priesthood except for their loyalty to their parishioners whom they love and their parish which they wish to serve.
267 - Apr 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
He took the opportunity to call for a stronger promotion of priestly vocations: I have to ask: do Catholics really want more vocations; do they pray insistently for vocations; how ready are Catholic families to encourage their children to enter the priesthood or religious life; is inherent selfishness which regulates the number of children in the family and seeks the good life the principal goal of families?
268 - Apr 2005 - Australia prepares for World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, AD2000 Report
He sees many of these young men and women as the future leaders of the Church in Melbourne: so far from the direct WYD experience there have been eight marriages five vocations to the priesthood and many inquiries about religious vocations.
269 - Mar 2005 - Books: Books to read in 2005
95 The Priest is Not His Own Fulton Sheen Archbishop Sheen presents a deeply spiritual look at the meaning of the priesthood and the relationship of the priest with Christ as an alter Christus.
270 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Priestly celibacy (letter), Barbara Chigwidden
Priesthood is a full-time and challenging vocation just as marriage is also a demanding vocation especially in the stress and strain of modern life.
271 - Mar 2005 - Church's future lies with orthodoxy, not dissent, Fr Paul Stuart
Big money is being spent on promoting vocations to the full-time life-long male and celibate priesthood.
272 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
Women should be encouraged into the priesthood.
273 - Mar 2005 - Vocations: Australian diocesan seminary numbers continue to increase, Michael Gilchrist
Elsewhere in New South Wales Vianney College in the Wagga Wagga Diocese continues to attract recruits for the priesthood.
274 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
So the Churchs teaching on everything from human sexuality to the contemplative dimension from the Eucharist to social issues from priesthood to feminism lies out there unread and unheeded.
275 - Feb 2005 - The Church in Australia 2005: can the tide be turned?, Michael Gilchrist
Vigorous campaigns to promote priestly vocations including emphasis on the essential nature of the priesthood could also be linked with perpetual adoration.
276 - Feb 2005 - Editorial: Year of the Eucharist: a time to get serious, Michael Gilchrist
The past 30 or more years have unfortunately witnessed a lessening of faith in the Real Presence a decline in reverence at Mass and a reduced appreciation of the essential role of the priesthood.
277 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The number of active priests in the world held almost perfectly steady but the ranks of men in the priesthood swelled in the missionary territories and in both Africa and Asia the ratio of priests to laymen improved markedly.
278 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Pastoral problems (letter), Fr Frank Brennan SJ
Nor did I say that young Catholics are being turned off the priesthood by an increasingly autocratic and doctrinaire Catholic Church that is out of touch with the 21st century.
279 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
May I also ask you to pray for the Church - for the holiness of our priests and religious for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and for the Church in the many difficulties she has to face both here and abroad.
280 - Oct 2004 - Today's non-practising young Catholics: are Church conservatives to blame?, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Brennan according to The Australian also said young Catholics were turned off the priesthood by an increasingly autocratic and doctrinaire Catholic Church that is out of touch with the 21st century.
281 - Sep 2004 - Reflection: Why the priesthood is absolutely necessary, Fr John O'Neill
Here we see why celibacy is so entwined into the priesthood: through the Sacrament of Order a mans love is absorbed by and lifted into the love of God the Son for God the Father and the Sons complete and direct love for all mankind.
282 - Sep 2004 - Events: Carnivale Christi Melbourne to celebrate Graham Greene's centenary, Liam Houlihan
Despite this books deep intuitive Catholic bend elements within the Vatican were unhappy that Greenes descriptions of mans wretchedness were harmful to the office of the priesthood.
283 - Sep 2004 - Mass Attendance: Where have all the worshippers gone?, Fr Martin Durham
Urgently needed is a concerted effort to convey the Churchs teachings on the Eucharist the Mass and the priesthood via homilies teachers and catechists inservices religious education and adult education courses liturgy committee meetings and the like if things are to be turned around.
284 - Jul 2004 - Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
During my five years in that parish I also saw three young parishioners enter the priesthood.
285 - Jul 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
He observed that it had become difficult to find young men in the wealthier nations who are willing to make the sacrifices that the priesthood entails because they were accustomed to richness and abundance.
286 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Priestly vocations (letter), Monsignor Robert Egar
The decline in vocations to the priesthood in France accelerated after World War II.
287 - May 2004 - Priesthood: Pope's World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Fr Paul Stuart
He writes: I stress that a necessary requirement of pastoral charity towards ones own particular Church and its future ministry is the concern which the priest should have to find so to speak someone to replace him in the priesthood.
288 - May 2004 - Australian Bishops' ad limina: strong leadership needed to confront secularism
Regarding the priesthood and seminaries the Statement had stressed that a priests identity needed strong affirmation and almost constant clarification and it was fundamental that correct intellectual ascetical and doctrinal formation as well as dutiful and inspired discipline be assured in seminaries.
289 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools
Ordinary lay-people are increasingly scandalised at the present scenario consisting among other things of apathetic and decreasing congregations and ever-dwindling vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
290 - Apr 2004 - Theology: Fr Aidan Nichols to lecture on von Balthasar in Melbourne, Tracey Rowland
Balthasar began his priesthood as a Jesuit but eventually left the Society of Jesus to form his own religious community.
291 - Mar 2004 - Ad limina 2004: The 'Statement of Conclusions' five years on, Michael Gilchrist
Regarding the priesthood and seminaries the Statement indicated that a priests identity needed strong affirmation and almost constant clarification and it was fundamental that correct intellectual ascetical and doctrinal formation as well as dutiful and inspired discipline be assured in seminaries.
292 - Mar 2004 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
But he insisted that celibacy is an essential dimension of the priestly life urging the bishops to help their priests - and young men who might be interested in the priesthood - understand celibacy as an affirmation of their vocation in service to the Church.
293 - Mar 2004 - Red Mass Homily: Can Lawyers Be Saints?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
Prior to entering the priesthood Bishop Fisher himself had a legal background.
294 - Feb 2004 - Reflection: The ministerial priesthood: 'truly a gift from God', Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
Your priesthood is absolutely vital.
295 - Feb 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
He told them that young people might be dissuaded from priestly or religious vocations because of three factors: fear of long-term commitment misconceptions about the nature of the priesthood and a general secularising trend that weakens understanding of faith.
296 - Dec 2003 - Books: Celibacy in the Early Church, by Stefan Heid, Fr Peter Murphy
The text concludes this historical analysis of chaste clerics with an adequate and most relevant reply to the question of the Churchs imposition of celibacy as a legal (canonical) requirement for those who are called to the priesthood.
297 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Voice of the Faithful, St Michael's Group
A new ecclesiology underlies just about everything else we would want to consider such as priesthood and associated issues; authority power and wealth in the Church; divorce and remarriage; the structure and life of parishes; the election of bishops; the role of the Church in the civil order; new forms of ministry; the place of various segments of the population in the Church e.
298 - Dec 2003 - VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success, Fr Paul Stuart
Secondly a number of young people who attended the Congress have called the vocations office to indicated a desire to apply for studies to the priesthood and religious life.
299 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
He then proceeded to illustrate his point by referring to the question of whether women should be ordained to the Catholic priesthood.
300 - Nov 2003 - Education: The Catholic Church's one Founder, Fr John O'Neill
Gods original plan Thus there is the power of Christ through his Church to give the life of grace ongoing through his priesthood and its sacraments and sacrifice; the authority of Christ to preserve through his Church the Truth revealed so necessary for true knowledge of God; and that same authority to keep before mankind that way of life which alone preserves in man the goodness created by God which makes man his image - all of this Gods means of bringing us into that joy which is in him from all eternity.
301 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Father James Gould and the hallmarks of successful vocations promotion, Michael Rose
For fifteen years from 1985 until 2000 he was charged with promoting and fostering vocations to the priesthood for the Diocese of Arlington under Bishop John Keating.
302 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock
The MGL also expects that their Seminary in Burwood Melbourne which is the next stage in the formation process towards priesthood will have ten seminarians next year.
303 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne on course despite brain drain, Fr Paul Stuart
Here his reforms addressed two key problems: the seminary was shrinking and Melbourne had extraordinarily high numbers of resignations from the priesthood of recently ordained clergy - in some instances by as much as 33 per cent.
304 - Nov 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The Rev Richard Seabrook vicar of Hockley in Essex told the newspaper: If bishops have decided unilaterally to go against 2000 years of Christian tradition of an all-male priesthood by ordaining women we have to put some clear blue water between us.
305 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Thomas Groome (letter), Dr Susan Moore
that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ (not the Vicar of the Church); that through apostolic succession the content of divine revelation remains constant for all time; that the ordained priesthood differs significantly from the common priesthood of the faithful; and that Rome has no authority to ordain women as priests.
306 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Clerical celibacy (letter), Gerard Wilson
I would like to compliment John Young on his article about the Churchs discipline regarding celibacy in the priesthood (Clerical celibacy for the sake of Gods Kingdom: the Churchs teaching August AD2000).
307 - Sep 2003 - Books: Some Fell On Rock, by Fr John O'Neill, Fr Peter Joseph
This booklet covers a variety of topics: sound thinking and philosophy liturgy Australian politics false theology modernism the priesthood and the unity of the Church.
308 - Sep 2003 - Events: Hearts On Fire Vocations Congress for Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
Two open forums were held in June and July 2002 which were attended by over one hundred people representing the priesthood religious married single consecrated youth groups and Catholic agencies.
309 - Sep 2003 - New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
In 1985 he entered the Dominican Order and studied for the priesthood in Melbourne receiving an honours degree in theology.
310 - Aug 2003 - Priests 24/7 : A video documentary, Michael Gilchrist
Available from Catholic bookshops) John Santamaria Executive Producer of a new video documentary on the Catholic priesthood - titled Priests 24/7 - explained that his project was a reaction to the constant adverse media coverage of a few bad apples among Australias thousands of priests.
311 - Aug 2003 - Priesthood: Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching, John Young
The Second Vatican Council endorsed this doctrine saying that in recognising the dignity of marriage students for the priesthood should recognise the greater excellence of virginity consecrated to Christ (Decree on the Training of Priests n.
312 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
Incidentally most of the students from Australia and New Zealand who were studying with me in Rome for the priesthood a highly talented group of men either chose not to be ordained or left the priesthood after ordination.
313 - Aug 2003 - US research survey: younger priests are generally more orthodox, AD2000
When the responses to 13 questions on doctrine are broken down according to the length of time respondents have been in the priesthood we find that priests ordained in the mid to late 60s - and now mainly aged in their sixties - are with remarkable consistency the most liberal (i.
314 - Aug 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Archbishop OMalley who was born in Ohio in 1946 entered the Capuchin religious order and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970.
315 - Aug 2003 - Documents: Ecclesia in Europa - Pope challenges Christians to re-evangelise Europe, Michael Gilchrist
This rootlessness is evident in the diminishing number of births the decline in the number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life and the difficulty if not the outright refusal to make lifelong commitments including marriage.
316 - Aug 2003 - Editorial: 'Do this in memory of Me', Peter Westmore
At a time when the priesthood is being assailed from all sides their witness shines forth as a model of what the priesthood truly is.
317 - Jul 2003 - Reflection: The meaning of vocation for baptised Christians, Archbishop Philip Wilson
As our life as a disciple of Christ unfolds the Lord begins to engage us in a new dynamic and asks us to reflect on our lives and whether our vocation is to be lived out through matrimony single life religious life or the priesthood.
318 - Jul 2003 - How to start a parish apologetics group, Mavis Power
Holy Names parish priest Father Thomas Keegan said that in all his years of priesthood he has never attended such a night where lay people spoke so well of their understanding of the Catholic Faith.
319 - Jul 2003 - The concentration camp prisoner who became a Queensland priest, Warren Losberg
Several years later after a long period of prayerful reflection he spoke to Bishop Ryan of Townsville who accepted him as a candidate for the priesthood.
320 - Jun 2003 - Reflection: Church scandals: focus on the message, not just the messengers, Fr Kevin Brannelly
The crime of paedophilia and other sexual abuse by priests have stunned faithful Catholics who have held the priesthood in such respect.
321 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter), Alistair Barros
Another proposal is Building Communities of Faith which seeks archdiocesan facilitation of small group formation stronger parish and school connection lay pastoral leadership and promotion of priesthood diaconate and religious life.
322 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Holy Orders (letter), Francis Vrijmoed
Allowing a married priesthood is a matter of changing Canon Law which the Church has authority to do.
323 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Four conditions (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
I am afraid Father Crothers is mistaken in holding that when Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis declared that the Church has not the power to confer the Christian priesthood on any woman he was not exercising his prerogative of personal infallibility.
324 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Requirements fulfilled (letter), John Young
Father John Crothers PP states in his letter (April AD2000) that the Pope has not declared his statement in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis to be infallible - the statement that the Church has no power to ordain women to the priesthood.
325 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Eucharistic encyclical and the priesthood (letter), John Kelly
In times when the truth and meaning of priesthood have been subjected to unremitting questioning with the priest often regarded in merely secular terms as facilitator or co-ordinator the Holy Father has reaffirmed for the whole Church the distinctive and sacred mystery of the priests sacrificial standing in the person of Christ when he celebrates the Eucharist from which the Church derives redeeming and sanctifying efficacy.
326 - Jun 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
More than half (61 percent) believe sex with a married woman should not debar priests from active ministry and 21 percent argue that practicing homosexuals should not be barred from the priesthood.
327 - Jun 2003 - Liturgy: John Paul's new encyclical on the Eucharist targets liturgical abuses, Michael Gilchrist
g Sunday Mass obligation confession Eucharistic adoration the real presence the Mass as a sacrifice the priesthood intercommunion Church music and architecture and liturgical abuses.
328 - May 2003 - Reflection: St Francis on individual confession and receiving Holy Communion, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
St Francis of Assisi one of the Churchs most popular saints regarded the Catholic priesthood with the greatest esteem showed the utmost reverence to the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and gratefully appreciated the supernatural gift of the Sacrament of Penance.
329 - May 2003 - Why priestly vocations are up in Perth Archdiocese, Debra Warrier
The correlation between his commitment to promoting vocations to the priesthood and the level of ordinations is hard to miss.
330 - May 2003 - Surge in priestly vocations confounds secular culture, Joanne Grainger
while the declining numbers entering the priesthood and religious life prompt claims of a crisis in the Church and calls for optional clerical celibacy the ordination of women and lay-led priest-less parishes.
331 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich
claiming that Pius IV and his apparatchiks prevented the Emperor Ferdinand I from having the Council of Trent legalise a married priesthood.
332 - Apr 2003 - Ecumenism: Christian unity: major obstacles still remain, David Schutz
The Holy Fathers reference to baptism here as the basis of unity is a reminder that Catholics envisage church unity as a sacramental unity that is a unity based in a common baptism sharing common sacraments ministered to by a common priesthood.
333 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Infallible teaching (letter), Peter Howard
Quite recently Fr OShea claimed that (his) theologians could find no basis in Scripture or theology for the exclusion of women from the priesthood while lamenting that at present the leadership of the Church does not even entertain the possibility of such a change (The Catholic Leader 27 October 2002).
334 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Teaching the truth (letter), Dennis MacDonald
Keane does this by quoting Groome himselfs boasting how he used his catechetical method to lead members of a parish altar society to change their position of support for the Churchs teaching on the non-ordination of women to the priesthood to one of opposition to it.
335 - Feb 2003 - Liturgy: The sacrifice of the Mass: the Eucharistic words of Christ, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The words Jesus used speak of sacrifice in terms of victim and priesthood.
336 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In a letter dated 16 May 2002 Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez - at the time the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship - said: Ordination to the diaconate or priesthood of persons with homosexual tendencies is absolutely inadvisable and imprudent and from a pastoral point of view extremely risky.
337 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
Donald Cozzens book The Changing Face of the Priesthood also raised a number of issues confronting both priests and seminarians in the contemporary North American Church.
338 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Bishop Power (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
As you pointed out the Popes teaching on the impossibility of conferring the Catholic priesthood on a woman was definitive.
339 - Dec 2002 - Brisbane Synod 2003: a leadership challenge, Peter D. Howard
Private confession Mass obligation opposition to contraception the priesthood as we know it and central Vatican authority have been declared to be dead or dying.
340 - Dec 2002 - Thomas Groome: his influence on religious education continues, Eamonn Keane
Ministerial priesthood Groome is most vocal in his dissent against the Churchs doctrine on the male-only ministerial priesthood.
341 - Dec 2002 - New Vatican Instruction on priesthood: the challenge to be another Christ, AD2000 Report
The common priesthood of the faithful and the ministerial priesthood are distinguished the former being based on its baptismal character the latter on the sacramental character received in the Sacrament of Orders which configures the priest to Christ so as to enable him to act in the person of Christ the Head and to exercise the potestas sacra sacred power to offer Sacrifice and forgive sins.
342 - Nov 2002 - Books: A Generation Betrayed: Deconstructing Catholic Education, by Eamonn Keane, John Young
Many quotes are given to demonstrate errors and distortions by these catechetical experts in regard to key areas of the Faith including the Blessed Trinity Christ the hierarchical Church and the priesthood.
343 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter), J.F. Nolan
Such proposals as readmission of married priests to active priestly functions full acceptance of divorced and remarried Catholics to eucharistic participation acceptability of artificial contraception for married or unmarried Catholics admission of women to the priesthood married priests wider use of the Third Rite of Reconciliation and other radical reforms the Holy Father has rejected time and again.
344 - Nov 2002 - Father Fessio: real US crisis is 'spiritual abuse', Karl Maurer
In the April document the Cardinals and Holy Father announced that a new and serious apostolic visitation of seminaries and other institutions of formation must be made without delay with particular emphasis on the need for fidelity to the Churchs teaching especially in the area of morality and in the need for deeper study of criteria for suitability of candidates for the priesthood.
345 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Vatican Information Service Increasing numbers of US seminarians Trend towards younger candidates More than 3400 men are studying for the diocesan priesthood in the United States this academic year the bishops conference says.
346 - Oct 2002 - Books: The Courage to be Catholic, by George Weigel, Michael Novak
He sets forth the theology of the priesthood in a way simultaneously inspiring on the one hand and on the other hand eviscerating to those who have committed treason against it.
347 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Celibate priesthood (letter), Cyril Drew
His statement that allowing a married clergy would debase the whole concept of a celibate priesthood in fact for me debases the importance of the married state.
348 - Oct 2002 - Bishop Power: Church teachings need to be 're-examined', AD2000 REPORT
Bishop Pat Power auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn has called for a re-examination of some Church teachings - including that on a male priesthood.
349 - Oct 2002 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women justifies its existence, Michael Gilchrist
This was despite the fact that a similar project of the US bishops (1983-1992) had got nowhere and that a major initiator of the project - the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes - had publicly dissented from the Popes 1994 Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis on a male-only priesthood.
350 - Oct 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
After emphasising that a solid formation is fundamental for prayer life and liturgy he said: In this sense faithfulness to doctrine on priestly celibacy for the Kingdom of Heaven must be considered with great esteem for the Church especially priestly life when it comes to discerning the call to unconditional and full surrender in candidates for the priesthood.
351 - Oct 2002 - Power without responsibility: the vendetta against Dr Pell, Peter Westmore
This clearly was the view of the seminary staff and his own bishop who sent him to Propaganda Fide College in Rome where he completed his studies for the priesthood before his ordination in St Peters Basilica in 1966.
352 - Sep 2002 - Books: Think Piece: Religious, Ethical and Moral Values, by Sebastian Camilleri OFM, Mark Posa
In between the book offers valuable insights into the way the priesthood is helpful in advising families and young people about how they can make the Church important in their lives.
353 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Seminaries (letter), Andrew Sholl
To shirk their responsibilities would be too awful to contemplate given the serious under-replenishment of an ageing priesthood.
354 - Sep 2002 - The 1960s 'cultural revolution': from self-sacrifice to self-fulfillment, Fr Gregory Jordan
In my own year at school there were 60 boys twelve of whom entered the priesthood.
355 - Sep 2002 - Promoting Catholic vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
The following outline covers some of the innovative approaches being used in the Melbourne Archdiocese to foster vocations to the priesthood religious life and various lay apostolates.
356 - Sep 2002 - Vocations: Corpus Christi Seminary enrolments bounce back, Michael Gilchrist
It is no secret that the overall number of students for the priesthood in Australias Catholic seminaries has been in steep decline since the late 1960s and early 1970s.
357 - Aug 2002 - Reflection: What Catholics should expect of their priests: men 'clothed in holiness', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
I remember clearly when I was about fourteen how shocked we were to read of a well-known priest who had left the priesthood to get married.
358 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Experts? (letter), Jerome Gonzalez
The Papacy has formally and definitively declared that the Church has no authority whatsover from Christ to ordain women to the priesthood and that this is to be held to by all of the faithful.
359 - Aug 2002 - New study of US seminary formation exposes fundamental flaws, John S. Webster
Students who attended such seminaries speak of Soviet Gulag-like pressures with every move and statement monitored for evidence of unsuitability for the priesthood.
360 - Aug 2002 - Helping Catholic school students to love the Church, Br John Moylan CFC
The Church is no less than the people of God a royal priesthood the Spouse of Christ the universal sacrament of salvation our Holy Mother the community of the disciples of Jesus Christ and many other images derived from Scripture conciliar documents the writings of popes and doctors of the Church and others.
361 - Aug 2002 - Sexual abuse, celibacy and vocations: a response to the Church's critics, Fr Paul Stuart
But if we do have a government inquiry into sexual abuse in the community I wager that the Catholic priesthood would come out of it looking a lot better than other institutions and professions that have not received the same media scrutiny.
362 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
This would include finding even more effective ways of contemplating the face of Jesus in our troubled world by responding to the universal call of holiness as well as the living out of the Sacraments today especially the Eucharist and the Sacrament of Reconciliation assisting families even further in their present day challenges launching new ways of encouraging vocations to the priesthood and religious life and continuing to support our youth especially their education in faith.
363 - Aug 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Born in 1950 in St Louis Missouri he attended St Louis Preparatory Seminary and Cardinal Glennon College completing his studies for the priesthood at the NAC and the University of St Thomas (the Angelicum) in Rome.
364 - Jul 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II clarifies Vatican II teaching on lay and priestly roles, Pope John Paul II
This means above all that they have been set apart to offer sacrifice since this is the essence of priesthood and the core of the Christian priesthood is the offering of the sacrifice of Christ.
365 - Jul 2002 - Cardinal Avery Dulles: US Jesuits need 'wake-up call', Michael Gilchrist
Some formation directors seem to have been infected with a critical attitude toward hierarchy and priesthood.
366 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The number of candidates to the priesthood grew worldwide from 64000 in 1978 to 111000 in 2000 with an uninterrupted upward trend over the entire period.
367 - Jul 2002 - Saints: Padre Pio canonised: "a model of the priesthood" (John Paul II), Paul MacLeod
Well the Pope has described him as a model of the priesthood for our times.
368 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
The parish has been blessed with multiple vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
369 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
The priests have come together around their Bishop showing forth our unity in the one priesthood of Jesus Christ.
370 - Jun 2002 - Moral leadership of American hierarchy under scrutiny at Rome meeting, Philip Lawler
People need to know that there is no place in the priesthood and religious life for those who would harm the young.
371 - Jun 2002 - Neocatechumenal Way setting up its second Australian seminary, Richard Egan
Men whose lives have been transformed by their own experience of the Neocatechumenal Way and who are considering a vocation to the priesthood first undergo a time of personal formation and discernment in their own parish a kind of pre-seminary.
372 - Jun 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Zenit News Service North American Congress on Vocations Popes letter sent to participants In a letter sent to the 1200 delegates at the North American Congress on Vocations held in Montreal in April Pope John Paul II said the promotion of vocations to the priesthood and religious life is a priority and urgent mission for the Church.
373 - May 2002 - Books: Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis, by Philip Jenkins, David Ross
And is there as some charge something about the institution of the priesthood itself that attracts or creates pedophiles?
374 - May 2002 - Letters: Priestly formation (letter), Cyril Drew
The chaplain asked whether he saw the Mass as the centre of the priesthood and Fr Hollings replied he did not.
375 - May 2002 - Letters: Farewell Mass for Fr Des Byrne (letter), Barry O'Brien
Not only was his work successful in that regard but I believe there have been quite a number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life granted by God to various members of that organisation.
376 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Telling the truth (letter), Teresa Martin
The watering down of the faith that is taking place - and has been for quite a few years - has done nothing to attract more people to the faith or to the priesthood.
377 - Apr 2002 - Adelaide Thomas More Centre address: The key elements of Catholic Action today, Archbishop Philip Wilson
At the outset he said the responsibility of Catholics to become involved in the world and to shape its values derived from the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation: Thats where our dignity as members of the People of God and the royal priesthood of the faithful takes root in our hearts and provides us with what is necessary to be that kind of witness in the world.
378 - Apr 2002 - Documents: John Paul II on the Catholic Faith in our region, Pope John Paul II
(41) The Church cannot function without the sacramental priesthood and cannot function well without good priests.
379 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
In a message to a conference being held at the Salesian University in Rome the Holy Father emphasised that Latin remains the official language of the Catholic Church and expressed his desire that the love of that language would grow ever strong among candidates for the priesthood.
380 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fr Werenfried - A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael Daniel
In 1934 he sensed a religious vocation and joined the Norbertines at Tongerlo Abbey in Belgium taking the religious name Werenfried and was ordained to the priesthood on 25 July 1940.
381 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Watered-down faith, Teresa Martin
The watering down of the faith that is taking place and has been for quite a few years has done nothing to attract more people to the faith or to the priesthood.
382 - Mar 2002 - North American vocations summit overlooks orthodox success stories, Zenit News Service
A summit of Catholic vocations leaders in North America will be held in Montreal Canada between 18-21 April 2002 ostensibly to find new ways to attract people to the priesthood religious and consecrated life.
383 - Feb 2002 - Books: 'The Martyrdom Of Blessed George Haydock:' by Barry Coldrey and Leo Griffin, Catholic Weekly
In spite of the risks of capture imprisonment torture and a gruesome death there was no shortage of vocations to the priesthood.
384 - Feb 2002 - Letters: School Masses, Br Con Moloney CFC
Father John echoes sentiments that I have long held when he writes: I have found it increasingly more difficult over the 17 years of my priesthood to continue the practice of class and full school Masses in Catholic secondary schools.
385 - Feb 2002 - The Church in South Korea: dynamic and fast-growing, Pat O'Brien
The diocese of Suon about the third largest had a seminary with 200 students studying for the priesthood when I left in 1992.
386 - Feb 2002 - Homily: Most Rev Geoffrey Jarrett installed as new Bishop of Lismore, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
I will be doing all in my power to seek and encourage vocations and as a bishop I will know no joy like that of bestowing the priesthood on those generous men who respond.
387 - Feb 2002 - Into the Deep Forum: young Catholics meet Australian bishops, Helen Ransom
He stressed that every Catholic student must understand the role of the priesthood particularly the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Sacrament of Confession.
388 - Feb 2002 - Melbourne Archdiocese: positive trend in priestly vocations continues, Fr Paul Stuart
When I commenced my diocesan appointment as Director of Vocations in 1999 there were 18 Melbourne seminarians and about four names on a list of individuals making inquiries about the diocesan priesthood.
389 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland
This work also contains a criticism of the tendency to analyse the priesthood in sociological terms.
390 - Dec 2001 - East Timor: how the Church is rebuilding a shattered nation, Peter Westmore
In the seminary in Dili there are about 30 Timorese candidates for the diocesan priesthood.
391 - Nov 2001 - Letters: St Thomas Aquinas, Valentine Gallagher
Father Robert ODonnell Ph D Professor of Philosophy at the New York Archdiocesan Seminary writes: In 1879 Leo XIII (in Aeterni Patris) declared the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas to be the official philosophy of the Catholic Church and required that all candidates for the priesthood be schooled in it (Hooked on Philosophy p.
392 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Forgotten teachings, Fr John Speekman
I have found it increasingly more difficult over the 17 years of my priesthood to continue the practice of class and full school Masses in Catholic secondary schools.
393 - Nov 2001 - A young Catholic's views on the state of the Church in Australia, James Connolly
In my own case I say that I feel called to serve Christ in His Church through the priesthood (as unworthy as I feel) and yet I am not sure I have the strength once I get into the ministry to immerse myself in a culture where many of the clergy I know (and I know many in my diocese very well due to my involvement at the cathedral and being an active parish member) ignore much that comes from Rome and the Holy Father.
394 - Nov 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The Holy Father exhorted the bishops to pay close attention to the formation of candidates to the priesthood and religious life expressing his great pleasure at the completion of the seminary in Karaganda which as the seminary of all of Central Asia would be a sign of effective co-operation between your Churches.
395 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
Previous meetings of the Synod have dealt with topics such as the family (1980) the role of the laity (in 1987) the priesthood (1990) and consecrated life (1994).
396 - Oct 2001 - Anglican General Synod 2001 - moves towards women bishops delayed, Nigel Zimmermann
From our point of view the admission of women to the episcopate is not corollary with the admission of women to the priesthood.
397 - Oct 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
There must be no confusion between the royal priesthood of believers and the ministerial priesthood; no room for the clericalisation of the laity which runs the risk of creating in fact an ecclesial structure of service parallel to the one founded on the sacrament of Holy Orders.
398 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Formidable mind (letter), Mrs V. Mulligan
Duggan SM who on 7 March 2001 celebrated 65 years of his priesthood in New Zealand.
399 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Adelaide protest (letter), Pauline Pascoe
On the other hand religious women who feel God is calling them to the priesthood and who protest against the Churchs teaching authority are in effect imposters.
400 - Sep 2001 - Feminism's broad agenda within the Catholic Church, Donna Steichen
Feminist trail-blazer Rosemary Ruether Professor of Applied Theology at Garret Evangelical Seminary in Evanston Illinois says in her book Women-Church Most Roman Catholic women neither can nor wish to be ordained in priesthood as presently defined.
401 - Sep 2001 - Archbishop Hart's reception at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne - Homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
I appreciate highly the quality and generosity of our seminarians who are on the journey to priesthood.
402 - Aug 2001 - Reflection: Clerical celibacy: Giving ourselves up completely to God and the people He loves, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
Today there is much discussion on celibacy and its relevance to the priesthood.
403 - Aug 2001 - Letters: St Thomas Aquinas (letter), Valentine Gallagher
Father Robert OConnell writes: In 1879 Leo XIII declared the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas to be the official philosophy of the Catholic Church and required that all candidates for the priesthood be schooled in it.
404 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Orthodox seminary (letter), Paul Chigwidden
Priestless parishes and a lack of vocations to the priesthood seem to be a regular topic in AD2000.
405 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
There are 60 young men studying for the priesthood in Denvers two archdiocesan seminaries.
406 - Aug 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Aid to the Church in Need Cardinal Ratzingers 50 years of priesthood Popes letter of congratulation Made public on 28 June was Pope John Pauls letter to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to congratulate him on the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
407 - Aug 2001 - Melbourne's new Archbishop receives Pallium from John Paul II, AD2000 Report
Welcome news Since his ordination to the priesthood in 1967 the Melbourne-born 60-year- old Dr Hart has served as a hospital chaplain assistant and parish priest in Melbourne parishes Prefect of Ceremonies for the Archdiocese Advocate and Notary of the Regional Matrimonial Tribunal and Executive Secretary of the National Liturgical Commission of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (1975-1990).
408 - Jul 2001 - Corpus Christi Seminary Inquiry Day
Young men in their senior years of secondary school (Years 11 and 12) or under 35 years old who wish to find out more about the diocesan priesthood as a vocation are invited to spend a day at Corpus Christi College for prayer Mass lunch talks and a tour of the seminary.
409 - Jul 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
(subtitled Does a female priesthood reflect the mind of Christ?
410 - Jun 2001 - Reflection: The priest: mediator between God and man, Archbishop George Pell
Regular prayer is of course what nourishes first of all the sense of the sacred identity of the ministerial priesthood.
411 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Blessed Columba Marmion: a Short Biography' by Mark Tierney OSB, Michael Daniel
Joseph Marmion was born in Dublin in 1858 and commenced his studies for the secular priesthood at Holy Cross Seminary Clonliffe in 1874.
412 - Jun 2001 - Anglican defence of Catholic inter-Communion ban, Fr Geoffrey Kirk
Pressures have been mounted from inside and outside the Catholic Church in recent years for a relaxation of its ban on inter-Communion with other Christian Churches despite the lack of agreement reached at ecumenical gatherings on the respective Churches understandings of the Eucharist and the priesthood.
413 - Jun 2001 - Annual women priests protest in Adelaide, AD2000 Report
We stand with those women who know themselves to be called by God to priesthood in the Catholic Church .
414 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
It was here that he recognised his calling to the priesthood.
415 - Jun 2001 - Archbishop Pell installed in Sydney, Michael Gilchrist
Perhaps the most significant point made during the homily - in the light of recent attempts to cope with the shortfall in clergy numbers - was Dr Pells emphasis on the need for more priests: The one constant in all Catholic history is the need for priests for vocations to the ministerial priesthood.
416 - Apr 2001 - How to avoid banal, superficial liturgies, Bishop Kevin Manning
This is what is meant by Ordination and Priesthood.
417 - Apr 2001 - Is Townsville the model for Ballarat's priest shortage?, Michael Gilchrist
And for some years it has been committed to a lay leadership solution to the clergy shortfall - aggravated by continuing numbers leaving the active priesthood.
418 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Cubas vocations increase Archbishop of Havana cites statistics Vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life are increasing in Cuba despite economic and social difficulties.
419 - Mar 2001 - Books: Why I Am A Priest: Thirty Success Stories, ed. Boadt, Hunt, Katie Lindorff
The reasons these priests give for continuing to live their priesthood are also similar: the people they serve the Eucharist they celebrate and Gods continuing call.
420 - Mar 2001 - Books: Why the hopes of the Council Fathers of Vatican II are yet to be realised, Michael Daniel
ordination of women to the priesthood) and morals (e.
421 - Mar 2001 - The surprise Cardinal: Fr Avery Dulles SJ, Zenit News Service
In 1946 he joined the Jesuits and began training for the priesthood.
422 - Mar 2001 - Seminary numbers up in orthodox US dioceses, Michael S. Rose
In Virginia the Diocese of Arlington ordained 55 men to the priesthood in the years 1991-98.
423 - Mar 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Philadelphia Priest Call New program to promote vocations Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadelphia announced recently that the Archdiocese will dedicate the year 2001 to the promotion of vocations to the priesthood.
424 - Feb 2001 - Reflection: The essential role of the Catholic priest, Fr John A. Hardon SJ
By now there must be as many definitions of the priesthood as there are dictionaries in print.
425 - Feb 2001 - New patterns of religious vocations in France
The new groups have become the principal seedbeds of vocations to the priesthood in France.
426 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Vocations (letter), Mrs Irena Nagy
There has been much publicity lately about the crisis of lack of vocations to the priesthood specifically and to the religious life generally.
427 - Feb 2001 - The "priest shortage": natural or artificial?, Larry A. Carstens
The conventional wisdom - articulated by fashionable theologians and feminist nuns - has been that the solution to the crisis is to ordain women to the priesthood.
428 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
In his address to the bishops before they departed for home John Paul II said regarding the Statement Your meetings with some of the Congregations of the Roman Curia have focused on questions of doctrine and morality the liturgy the role of the Bishop evangelisation and mission the priesthood religious life and Catholic education.
429 - Dec 2000 - The 'new breed' of orthodox seminarians, Carter H. Griffin
While the number of vocations to the priesthood in western countries like Australia and the United States has fallen over the past 30 years more recently the proportion of those who are unashamedly orthodox has been rising.
430 - Dec 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
He continued: Today I invite us to reflect upon the vocation to the priesthood and the consecrated life which includes religious life and secular institutes.
431 - Dec 2000 - ACU - when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' be implemented?, Michael Gilchrist
The findings indicated a large proportion of graduating student teachers were out of line with Church teachings on the Real Presence the Trinity the priesthood abortion contraception and Sunday Mass obligation.
432 - Oct 2000 - An authentic Christian spirituality grounded in objective revelation, Michael Daniel
Joseph Marmion - whose legacy stands in stark contrast to such an effete Christianity - was born in Dublin in 1858 and commenced his studies for the secular priesthood at Holy Cross Seminary Clonliffe in 1874.
433 - Oct 2000 - How orthodox are Australian Catholic University's professorial staff?, Eamonn Keane
Earlier this year AD2000 reported on the results of a survey conducted by Professor Denis McLaughlin into the beliefs values and practices of student teachers at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) which revealed that a large proportion of the students did not accept the Churchs teaching on abortion contraception the male-only ministerial priesthood and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
434 - Oct 2000 - Contentious Social Justice Statement on women's participation published, Michael Gilchrist
Everywhere a Catholic looks today women are visibly exercising responsibilities at all levels of the Churchs life (short of the priesthood and hierarchy): editors of Catholic papers directors of Catholic Education Offices professors at seminaries and theology institutes directors of university campuses facilitators of renewal programs - the list goes on.
435 - Oct 2000 - 'Call to Change' in Tasmania: but whose 'vision of Church'?, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Whelan continued: For example the Church is struggling at this time to understand (in the light of the Good News the Tradition and the historical reality in which she finds herself) the meanings of such central features as priesthood Eucharist the authority and responsibilities of the Bishop of Rome marriage evangelisation catechesis and so on.
436 - Sep 2000 - Ensuring our schools are truly Catholic, Br John Moylan CFC
From the younger group there are few vocations to the priesthood and religious life and those who with their children benefit from a stable marriage are becoming a minority.
437 - Sep 2000 - Rome's International Eucharistic Congress: 'an unforgettable week', Christine McCarthy
Rev Mark Withers an Australian deacon studying in Rome and now ordained to the priesthood chanted the Gospel in Latin.
438 - Aug 2000 - Reflection: Re-discovering holiness will lead to more priestly vocations: Cardinal Daly, Cardinal Cahal Daly
Parishioners must recognise that it is part of their own responsibility as a community of faith to encourage to welcome and to work for and support vocations to the priesthood.
439 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee
It was a confusing and ultimately disorienting experience to be in Rome studying for the priesthood during the period 1967-1970.
440 - Aug 2000 - Rockhampton: shuffling deck chairs on the 'Titanic', AD2000 Report
The retiring age for priests is set at 70 instead of the usual 75 elsewhere numbers have resigned from the active priesthood in recent years suggestions that priests from overseas be invited into the diocese to make up the shortfall are rejected and priestly vocations for the diocese remain almost non-existent.
441 - Aug 2000 - Church of England to consider women bishops, Zenit News Service
He said it was absurd to allow women to be ordained to the priesthood while explicitly barring them from becoming bishops: The threefold nature of Holy Orders as it has been traditionally understood in the Church of England is that in theory at least a deacon may become a priest and a priest become a bishop.
442 - Aug 2000 - Archbishop Hickey on Perth's priestly vocations success story, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
In recent years the Perth Archdiocese has achieved considerable success in attracting increasing numbers of young men to the priesthood.
443 - Jul 2000 - Australian bishops' response to 'Woman and Man' report, Michael Gilchrist
In 1994 following release of the Popes apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis which restated Church teaching on a male-only priesthood the ACLRI National Executive responded in a public letter: We write to express our dismay and disappointment at the recent Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope John Paul II specifically in so far as it prohibits further discussion of the ordination of women.
444 - Jun 2000 - How Catholics can help rebuild Christian culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Without faithful Catholic married couples who are open to new life; who create loving homes; who nourish their children with the sacraments and the Word of God; who create in their sons and daughters a zeal for Jesus Christ - without these faithful laypeople we can forget about vocations to the priesthood and the religious life.
445 - Jun 2000 - One of the great bishops of modern times, Michael Gilchrist
There he was inspired to study for the priesthood entering St Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia at age 16.
446 - Jun 2000 - New Primate: Anglican divisions intensify, Rev David Robarts
To have worthy local laity presiding at the Eucharist - a notion not uncongenial to Catholic theologians like Kng and Schillebeeckx - is one espoused by many evangelical Anglicans who set no store by a sacerdotal priesthood but whose primary concern is the proclamation of the Word and planting new churches.
447 - May 2000 - Books: 'The Wisdom of Adrian Fortescue' ed. Michael Davies, Michael Daniel
Adrian whose father was a convert clergyman was educated for the priesthood at the Scots College in Rome and Innsbruck in Austria.
448 - May 2000 - Books: Francis Thompson: author of 'The Hound of Heaven', Michael Daniel
At the suggestion of the Rector however he left in 1877 as it was felt he lacked the necessary dispositions for the priesthood.
449 - May 2000 - The priesthood: John Paul II's Holy Thursday Letter sets guidelines, Pope John Paul II
In his Letter to Priests for Holy Thursday 2000 Pope John Paul II restates orthodox Catholic teachings on the meaning and role of the priesthood and Eucharist that have been de-emphasised in some quarters of the Church.
450 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Speaking to journalists on 30 March as he briefed the press on the Popes annual Holy Thursday letter to priests Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos reported that there are now 109828 seminarians preparing for the priesthood around the world - a slight increase over the 108517 in 1997 and an enormous increase from the 60142 in 1975.
451 - May 2000 - Australian Catholic University student survey, Michael Gilchrist
All principals privately held views contrary to current Vatican teachings on priestly celibacy married clergy female priesthood and artificial birth control.
452 - May 2000 - Editorial: Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul IIs latest Holy Thursday Letter to Priests (see page 7) sets out aspects of the priesthood and Eucharist which he sees as most in need of re-emphasis.
453 - Apr 2000 - Fraternity of St Peter in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Daniel
Four of these seminarians are Australians; the fifth Australian member of the Fraternity Fr John Gresser originally from Sydney was ordained to the priesthood in Canada on 4 March this year before joining Fr Rizzo in Melbourne later the same month.
454 - Apr 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Murphy-OConnor 69 was formerly Bishop of Arundel and Brighton and began training for the priesthood in 1950 at the English College in Rome which houses seminarians from England and Wales.
455 - Mar 2000 - Biography: Fulton J. Sheen: prophetic inspiration for today's new evangelisation, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
The source of his strength and his untiring self-giving came from his daily hour before the Blessed Sacrament which he never once missed from the day of his ordination to the priesthood.
456 - Mar 2000 - New York Scripture seminar affirms reliability of New Testament, Eamonn Keane
Msgr Kelly said that in this book Brown could not prove that Christ instituted the ministerial priesthood or episcopacy as such that Christ established the Eucharist as a sacrifice that those who presided at the Eucharist were really priests that a separate priesthood began with Christ that presbyter bishops were in any way traceable to the apostles that Peter in his life-time would be looked upon as the Bishop of Rome or that the bishops were the successors of the Apostles - even though Vatican II had restated that very claim.
457 - Mar 2000 - Priestly vocations increasing in Melbourne, Fr Paul Stuart
In 1999 the Vocations Office received 29 approaches from men inquiring about the priesthood as a possible vocation and 19 formally applied to enter the seminary.
458 - Feb 2000 - Tom Monaghan: the tycoon who sold his assets to serve the Church, Patrick Ward
The young Monaghan thought about the priesthood and spent some time in a seminary but eventually discovered that his vocation lay elsewhere.
459 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Church News German bishops in Rome Pope expresses his concerns During a 20 November meeting with a group of German bishops Pope John Paul II promised to use clear and direct language on a number of topics including Church involvement in abortion counselling the role of women in the Church the distinction between laity and clergy and the all-male priesthood.
460 - Feb 2000 - Legionaries of Christ: new order for a new millennium, Peter Westmore
At a time when many dioceses in both the West and developing world are suffering from a lack of vocations to the priesthood the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ - formed less than 60 years ago - has grown to have over 400 priests and over 2000 seminarians and aspirants to the priesthood throughout the world.
461 - Oct 1999 - Australian bishops' report on women: majority supports orthodoxy, Michael Gilchrist
About three years ago the Australian bishops agreed to commission the ambitious research project apparently undeterred by the failure of a similar US enterprise between 1983-1992 and by the fact that the projects main instigators - notably the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes (ACLRI) - had publicly dissented from the Popes 1994 Apostolic Letter confirming the Churchs 2000-year-old teaching on a male-only ordained priesthood.
462 - Sep 1999 - Reflection: A spirit of poverty and the level of vocations: how they connect, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
What is the root cause of the disastrous collapse in vocations to the priesthood and religious life over the past twenty-five years or so in Australia?
463 - Aug 1999 - Cardinal Basil Hume (1923-1999), Archbishop of Westminster, R.I.P., Christopher Quinn
Allen Hall his - at times notoriously liberal - seminary has a new rector appointed by Cardinal Hume who amongst other things has re- ordered the chapel so that it looks like a chapel and speaks openly and often of the importance of the ministerial priesthood.
464 - Aug 1999 - Catalyst for Renewal: or is it a catalyst for extinction?, Edward Thornton
Thus while Fr Gerard Gleeson upholds Church teaching that ordination to the priesthood is reserved to men in his paper The Future of Women in the Church delivered at the second Forum for the Future Fr Humphrey OLeary a Redemptorist posits the question of whether the Churchs teaching on women priests will change in the same way that its teaching on the use of the vernacular in the liturgy or ecumenism has changed.
465 - Jul 1999 - A successful French seminary that follows the Curé of Ars tradition, Francis Davidson
The resultant lack of basic education made study difficult for John as he prepared for the priesthood.
466 - Jul 1999 - Religious education reform in the Melbourne Archdiocese under attack, John S. Webster
Ironically during these dark ages the Catholic Church was on a high in terms of the knowledge understanding and practice of the faith and vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
467 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Seminarians increase worldwide Vatican Statistical Yearbook figures The latest edition of the Vaticans Statistical Yearbook (updated to 31 December 1997) reveals that vocations to the priesthood are increasing in Africa Asia Latin America and parts of Oceania.
468 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
No 1999 priestly vocations for Adelaide Clerical celibacy questioned in Adelaide According to a report in The Advertiser (Adelaide) not one entrant for the diocesan priesthood has come forward in 1999 to study at the Adelaide College of Divinity.
469 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
For the priesthood you could not outdo a good pastor.
470 - May 1999 - Editorial: Ensuring the future of the priesthood, Michael Gilchrist
Among the many topics addressed by the Statement of Conclusions was the condition of the priesthood in Australia.
471 - Apr 1999 - Presenting Catholic apologetics to a wider Australian public, AD2000 Report
Varied topics Talks were given on topics as varied as the divinity of Jesus Christ the Resurrection the Real Presence in the Eucharist the Biblical inspiration of the prayer of the Rosary why contraception is against the mind of Christ the Biblical foundations of priestly celibacy and why the Church cannot ordain women to the priesthood.
472 - Apr 1999 - Bishop Heaps' book: a mistaken view of the Catholic Church, Stuart Rowland
The Bishop seems to imply the attitude of the Church on shared responsibility and consultation the presumption in the Church of the Roman Rite that the gifts of priesthood and celibacy are both required for a person to be ordained the role of women in the life and ministry of the Church the teaching of the Church on sexual matters and the whole style of Church decision-making and government are evils to be classified alongside systematic genocide torture trading in human beings .
473 - Apr 1999 - How an American diocese promotes individual confession
Christ gave his apostles the power to forgive sins on the first Easter Sunday evening and that power is passed on through the priesthood.
474 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The mature age of many of the candidates to the priesthood is explained by the Governments restrictions on the number of ordinations per year so that many who finish their studies while still young then have to wait years before being allowed to be ordained.
475 - Apr 1999 - Editorial: Many matters in need of attention, Peter Westmore
Among other things it highlighted the important role of bishops in upholding orthodoxy; called for continuing formation of priests to develop their spiritual life; strongly encouraged the active promotion of vocations to the priesthood and religious life; demanded that associations of priests and religious superiors accept the Churchs magisterium; called for an end to abuses especially at Mass and in the Sacrament of Penance; and called for the strengthening of the Catholic content of Catholic education.
476 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik
But I have never forgotten the lessons I learned in my sufferings: to never hide my priesthood to never lose hope in the Good Lord and to trust always in Gods mercy.
477 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
It was not until 1993 three years after my ordination to the priesthood that I started taking serious steps towards a more radical and reformed religious life.
478 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power
During formation for the priesthood part of his theological training came from Irish Capuchins in California.
479 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
and Archbishop George Pell (The Catholic Parish Priesthood Today).
480 - Feb 1999 - 'Absolute Truth': another media 'job' on the Catholic Church, Michael Gilchrist
The former is at the heart of the crisis in the priesthood while the latter is dismissed by a British womens ordination activist Emma Winkley as just ridiculous.
481 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
Your meetings with some of the Congregations of the Roman Curia have focused on questions of doctrine and morality the liturgy the role of the Bishop evangelisation and mission the priesthood religious life and Catholic education.
482 - Dec 1998 - Pope John Paul II calls for more 'balance' in the reformed liturgy, AD2000 Report
The ministerial priesthood he noted is to be distinguished from the priesthood of the baptised since it is rooted in the apostolic succession thus making a priest not just one who presides but one who acts in the person of Christ.
483 - Dec 1998 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Curtiss said that vocations to the priesthood and religious life are out there in large numbers but potential candidates are not being invited or encouraged.
484 - Dec 1998 - Cardinal Ratzinger presents John Paul II's latest encyclical, Michael Gilchrist
Perhaps the absence of references to contraception or a male-only priesthood left many journalists and commentators bereft of much to sink their teeth into.
485 - Oct 1998 - Perth Archdiocese vocations: an 'optimistic picture', Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
We are going through difficult times but I do not accept that we are in a state of crisis regarding vocations to the diocesan priesthood.
486 - Aug 1998 - U.S. Priests and seminarians survey: more vocations in orthodox dioceses, Human Life International
One might have predicted at the outset that dioceses where in general the sacred character of the ordained priesthood is more emphasised liturgies are celebrated reverently according to the Churchs rubrics and doctrinal orthodoxy is insisted upon and promoted would attract more recruits - e.
487 - Aug 1998 - Cardinal John Henry Newman and the development of doctrine, Fr Peter Waters
For example the proposal that women ought be ordained to the priesthood is sometimes presented as a natural albeit belated development within the Church now that society has fresher and clearer insights into the nature of gender and the true potential and equality of women.
488 - Aug 1998 - Decline in priests 'an opportunity for growth!' says Townsville's Bishop, Michael Gilchrist
This stalemate presumably refers to Church teaching on the ordained priesthood.
489 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
Others see the ministerial priesthood as one relic of a vanished clerical age.
490 - Apr 1998 - AD2000's tenth anniversary: an appraisal, Peter Westmore
the recent Vatican Instruction on the role of the laity in the ministry of the ordained priesthood.
491 - Mar 1998 - Vatican Instruction on the role of the laity is binding on Catholics, Peter Westmore
Definitive teaching In this declaration the Holy Father said that the Catholic Church did not consider itself authorised to ordain women to the Catholic priesthood and that the teaching was definitive and final - precluding further debate on the subject.
492 - Feb 1998 - Vatican Instruction addresses an 'inadequate theology' of priesthood, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP
There may be much to recommend such ideas but they are not the teaching of the Second Vatican Council as manifested in its documents on the Church (Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes) and on the priesthood and episcopate (Presbyterorum Ordinis and Christus Dominus).
493 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal O'Connor of New York in Australia as the Pope's representative, Michael Gilchrist
Vocations He expressed confidence about vocations to the priesthood having run Evenings with the Cardinal where he encourages young men to come and talk and listen about the priesthood.
494 - Sep 1997 - Editorial: Inclusive language: the Vatican sets the limits, Michael Gilchrist
The first was the Holy Sees unbending refusal to countenance the abandonment of the two thousand-year-old tradition that the priesthood should be confined to men.
495 - Aug 1997 - Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia: an update, Michael Gilchrist
Mary Ann Glendon for example provided a very different perspective on the role and goals of women in the Church: As for the priesthood it is not a job but a calling from God.
496 - Jul 1997 - Which Catholic women will the Australian bishops listen to?, Michael Gilchrist
The aim of the present project is to identify areas - short of ordination to the priesthood - where women could be more actively involved than they are at present in the Churchs life structures and decision-making processes.
497 - Jul 1997 - Editorial: Unity is Strength: Division is Death
These among others have the responsibility for teaching seminarians in training for the diocesan and religious priesthood; for the conduct of theology faculties in Catholic universities; and for the control of theological reviews and journals.
498 - May 1997 - Brisbane pastoral ministers guidelines: 'Zooming along' to priestless parishes?, Michael Gilchrist
Prospective recruits to the priesthood who study this document might well wonder about the point of continuing on their course to ordination when an alternative well paid and well-cared for lay priesthood seems to be materialising.
499 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
The number of men in the final stages of preparation for the priesthood in 1995 stood at 105000 a 74% increase on 1970 figures.
500 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Singapore: why is it strong and healthy?, Michael Barr
The seminary is training a healthy number of candidates for the priesthood.
501 - Dec 1996 - Australian 'new church': Sr Roberta Hakendorf leads the charge, AD2000 Report
It is not surprising that Sr Hakendorf is leading the charge to set up a new church in Australia when one recalls her reported statement to an Adelaide conference of the Movement for the Ordination of Women ten years ago (The Age 1 September 1986): As far as I see it there is no place for the ordained priesthood.
502 - Sep 1996 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church', by Romano Amerio, Fr Peter Joseph
Amerio covers almost all the whole range of modem Catholic life and doctrine in 42 chapters considering in detail amongst others: Vatican II the priesthood catechetics religious orders ecumenism faith morality Catholic culture the liturgy and eschatology.
503 - Aug 1996 - How to overcome the shortage of priests, Fr Kevin Dillon PP
Maybe priesthood is just too demanding today?
504 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
The liturgy is of fundamental importance for what Catholics encounter inside their parish churches during Mass more than any other single factor outside their own family environment affects their perception of the Faith - the Eucharist the priesthood the Scriptures sin and repentance and other key beliefs.
505 - May 1996 - Reflection: Holy Communion and the Real Presence: whatever happened to reverence?, Christine McCarthy
The Catholic people have always looked to the priesthood to set standards of belief and behaviour.
506 - Feb 1996 - St Patrick's College, Manly, seminary becomes a hotel school!, Tony Abbott
It is the biggest oldest and most celebrated seminary in Australia - and by providing an alternative to training in Dublin or Rome was midwife to the birth of a local priesthood.
507 - Sep 1995 - Editorial: Catholic doctrines and moral teachings: the time for enforcement is overdue, B.A. Santamaria
Referring to the reports to be expected from the Theological and Biblical Associations he added: The first report examines the relationship between women and priesthood while the second examines the status of the Popes teaching on the ordination of women with regard to possible future roles of women in the Church .
508 - Jul 1995 - Edel Quinn (1907-1944): Ireland's 20th century apostle to Africa, Michael Gilchrist
Just 12 months later the owner himself left to study for the priesthood in Rome as a late vocation.
509 - May 1995 - Lincoln, Nebraska: how a Catholic diocese was built
Bishop Bruskewitz who completed his theological studies for the priesthood in Rome and was ordained in 1960 served in several pastoral posts in his native Wisconsin before returning to Rome in 1965 where he obtained his doctorate from the Gregorian University.
510 - Apr 1995 - Church of England General Synod member joins the Catholic Church, Fr Peter Geldard
Whatever the cogency of the issue itself it was I believe a complete misuse of Authority and undermined the claim of the Church of England to share a common ordained priesthood with the wider Catholic Church and destroyed the very raison detre which attracted me to join her some 33 years ago.
511 - Apr 1995 - Catholicism: 'revealed by God, not devised by man', Fr Graham Leonard (former Anglican Bishop of London)
In the second Preface addressed to a future and unknown Pope Dr Edwards refers to various issues which he discusses in the body of the book - infallibility sex and gender the authority of the Bible and the Church and priesthood.
512 - Apr 1995 - Why Virginia's Arlington Diocese has no priest shortage, Michael Gilchrist
The memorandum explained: One of the top priorities of the Diocese of Arlington is to identify and nurture potential vocations to the priesthood and it is a special gift of God that our corps of diocesan priests has grown over 50% in the past decade.
513 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
Fedorovs school friends were no doubt startled by his choice of life when he applied for enrolment in the Theological Academy as an aspirant for the priesthood in the Russian Orthodox Church.
514 - Mar 1995 - A young Catholic's view of Youth Liturgies, Bernard Finnigan
In this writers opinion Youth Liturgies of the kind described scarcely deserve the label Catholic - Christian perhaps and certainly motivated by good will - since they reflect inadequate appreciations of the sacrificial nature of the Mass the Eucharists real presence the ordained priesthood and the supernatural dimension in general.
515 - Dec 1994 - Many vocations: empty seminaries, Fr Timothy E. Deeter
The number of seminarians in training for the diocesan priesthood in Australia is a small fraction of what prevailed up to the 1960s and represents one of the worlds worst declines since Vatican II.
516 - Aug 1994 - How dissent operates in the Church, Bishop George Pell
Gratian himself in his Decretum drew on tradition to exclude women from priestly ministries - baptising and teaching - and the great medieval theologians Thomas Aquinas Bonaventure and Duns Scotus grappled with the exclusion of women from the priesthood which is conferred by the sacrament of orders and is not merely a role or function.
517 - Aug 1994 - Editorial: Now that the rebellion is in the open - what?, B.A. Santamaria
They obviously represent the majority opinion of the various Catholic Education Offices which are responsible for the religious instruction of young Catholics They must be presumed to represent the opinions of most theologians and biblical scholars who instruct students for the priesthood and the religious life as well as future religion teachers in the schools.
518 - Jul 1994 - Putting orthodoxy on the line, B.A. Santamaria
This repudiation has extended over the whole range of the Churchs teachings including the origin and nature of the priesthood.
519 - Jun 1994 - Fr Hubert Jedin's 1968 'Letter to the German Bishops', Fr Hubert Jedin
No candidate for priestly office should be ordained unless he explicitly and unconditionally acknowledges the duties of the priesthood and undertakes canonical obedience.
520 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy
Once at a meeting in Rome I incautiously quoted Frank Sheeds claim that since St Augustine God had given no man both a vocation to the priesthood and great literary talent.
521 - Oct 1993 - Eucharistic adoration - are we keeping up with the rest of the world?, Christine McCarthy
The experience of the Church is that precisely as devotion for the Blessed Sacrament grows there is a corresponding increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
522 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
There have been no defections from the priesthood since 1976.
523 - Jul 1993 - U.S. Bishop solves vocations crisis, Michael Gilchrist
In the period from 1990-1992 for example Peoria which has just over 230000 Catholics ordained 33 men to the priesthood - one more than the neighbouring Archdiocese of Chicago which has ten times more Catholics.
524 - May 1993 - 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church': Confronting the post-Christian world, B.A. Santamaria
What without lack of charity we may legitimately find astonishing is this: that people who have adopted positions that imply that from the earliest times the Catholic Church claiming to have a mission from God to safeguard divinely revealed truth has taught and insisted on the acceptance of falsehoods falsehoods enshrined in her most sacred books and is accordingly as much of a fraud as her enemies have always maintained should think it proper to teach such views to those in training for the priesthood.
525 - Nov 1992 - Where 'normal' religious life flourishes, Fr John Parsons
They too celebrated their Low Masses in the morning after Lauds each priest thus making full personal use of his priesthood for the greater glory of God and to intercede for some particular need.
526 - Nov 1992 - From a 'workshop' for Pastoral Associates
If Witness Newsletter is any guide the pastoral associates agenda-setters obviously dislike a hierarchical Church clear doctrinal teaching and a men-only priesthood.
527 - Nov 1992 - Editorial: Turning the Faith inside out, B.A. Santamaria
The concept of ministry will come to over-ride that of priesthood with the concomitant claim that what the ordained priest can do the unordained minister (as representative of the community) can also do.
528 - Oct 1992 - Why is Archbishop Weakland invited to Australia?, AD2000 Report
media justifying abortion and advocating the admission of active homosexuals to the priesthood.
529 - Sep 1992 - The Townsville experiment: next stage in the evolution of an Australian Church?
521 sect;1 To be validly appointed a parish priest one must be in the sacred order of priesthood.
530 - Apr 1992 - Whence Ecumenism? The Vatican and ARCIC, Michael Davies
There the ARCIC co-chairman proclaimed that substantial agreement had been reached on the priesthood and sought to prove this with yet another series of calculated ambiguities.
531 - Apr 1992 - Problems of modern Biblical scholarship, B.A. Santamaria
That is the historical fact that in establishing the Church Christ did not ordain women to the priesthood and that changes in intellectual fashion cannot alter any part of the fundamental basis of the constitution given by Christ Himself.
532 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
For the past 25 years a form of pseudo-renewal allegedly based on Vatican II has afflicted the Church to the point of creating in places internal schisms accompanied by such aberrations as religious indifferentism (one religion as true as another) liturgical adventurism a doctrinally weak and vacuous catechesis a this world emphasis for Catholicism a democratic rather than a hierarchical Church a downgrading of individual sin (and regular confession) doctrinal and moral pluralism blurred distinctions between the ordained priesthood and the laity a weakening of papal authority a demythologised Scripture the sidelining of Marian devotions the stripping of church interiors and so on.
533 - Dec 1991 - New Zealand: 'transforming the Church from within', John Kennedy OBE
Radical feminists and activist nuns in New Zealand continue to nibble away at those structures and teaching of the Catholic Church which have to do with religious life the role of women in the life of the Church and in particular with the reservation of the priesthood to men only.
534 - Nov 1991 - Editorial: When television told the truth, B.A. Santamaria
The second group barely gave nodding recognition to the essential principles of the Faith as revealed by Christ; to the development of doctrine and ecclesiastical structures - particularly the episcopate and the priesthood - which flowed from His teachings in the first two centuries of the Churchs history; and to the organic development of the concept of authority which has evolved consistently through the Churchs General Councils down to the Second Vatican Council.
535 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
If such a view was in fact expressed - and there is a good deal of collateral evidence that it is widely held especially by those influenced by Schillebeeckxs view of the priesthood - it is little wonder that serious problems have arisen in particular the visible demoralisation of large sections of the priesthood resulting from the loss of a clear sense of identity; and the drying up of vocations to an institution which does not clearly involve functions distinct from those which can be performed by the laity.
536 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
The questions surrounding ministry will be addressed including lay ministry deacons priesthood celibacy vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
537 - Feb 1991 - Leading questions for New Zealand's Religious, Sr Micaela Dillon OP
divorced who are remarried Little opportunity to discover new ways of expressing a broader understanding of Eucharist There is insufficient emphasis and reflection upon the Word The role of the male priest is too dominating for encouraging participation Women are excluded from ministerial priesthood and Church practice over 2000 years has made celebration of the Eucharist too complicated.
538 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
In 1967 in Australia there were 1069 religious and diocesan seminarians in training for the priesthood; by 1984 this figure had fallen to 284 and has shown no signs of general increase since then.
539 - Jun 1990 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century', Fr John Parsons
There are separate chapters on the sacraments in general and each sacrament in particular on natural theology scepticism the liturgy the priesthood the religious orders Catholic lay movements asceticism Catholic education Church and State the death penalty work and technology the Church and women abortion catechetics and a variety of other topics bringing the book to forty two chapters in all.
540 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
Despite the shortage of vocations to the Catholic priesthood today the danger is that by encouraging lay people to occupy the sanctuary we both weaken the identity of the priesthood and at the same time empty the secular community of the very people the secular community needs.
541 - Mar 1990 - New Zealand: tensions between Rome and the Bishops, John Kennedy OBE
Mr Kennedy examines ecumenism relations between New Zealands Catholic bishops and the Vatican the priesthood and the incursions of feminism into seminary training.
542 - Mar 1990 - Close encounter with feminist theology, Dr Frank Mobbs
Mary the Priest would demonstrate conclusively that it is not necessary to restrict the priesthood to males.
543 - Feb 1990 - 'Holland of the Pacific'?: Catholicism in New Zealand, John Kennedy OBE
There are unfortunately real grounds for questioning the commitment of sections of the Church to such fundamental issues as the doctrine of the Real Presence the nature of the priesthood the Petrine Primacy the official teaching of the Church on matters of sexual morality ranging from contraception to abortion to homosexuality and lastly but of extreme importance the matter of the permanence of marriage.
544 - Feb 1990 - Thomas Aquinas College, California: a model of Catholic higher education, Michael Gilchrist
A remarkable 11 per cent of Thomas Aquinas graduates over the past decade have joined such Orders as the Dominicans Benedictines Legionaries of Christ Oblates of the Virgin Mary the Poor Clares the Carmelites and the Missionaries of Charity as well as the secular priesthood.
545 - Oct 1989 - Catholicism at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
Agenda Despite numerous Papal statements and documents on the nature and importance of the ordained priesthood assembly/synod materials speculate about a married clergy Pastoral Teams of the non- ordained to run priestless parishes the use of ex-priests and even the question of womens ordination.
546 - Jul 1989 - An Agnostic analyses Catholicism: interview with Leszek Kolokawski, Paul Gray
As to the priesthood of women Im not familiar with theological arguments for or against.
547 - Jul 1989 - Editorial: No subscriptions under false pretences, B.A. Santamaria
For nearly 20 years little if any transmission of basic religious teaching has taken place in our secondary system from which our vocations to the priesthood and lay leadership used to come.
548 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
However there is a tendency among a few to distinguish the local community or church from the official church to question the need of a ministerial priesthood as distinct from the priesthood of all the baptised to explicitly deny that priests must be male and celibate and to effectively downgrade the leadership of the Pope and bishops while not excluding these institutions in favour of an ostensibly communitarian model of Church government led in fact by middle-order functionaries.
549 - Sep 1988 - Decline and fall of the Catholic priesthood, Gary Scarrabelotti
Sometimes it isnt so much that as a general loss of confidence in the priesthood itself.
550 - Sep 1988 - 'Putting the essence of the Faith in doubt' (Jean Guitton), B.A. Santamaria
Symptomatic are the Holy Sees concern over the challenge to the basic concept of the priesthood involved in the abuse of the institution of lay ministers of the Eucharist the subject of a recent decree of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law; the Popes plea for an end to the abuses associated with the Sacrament of Penance which was the subject of a recent address to American Bishops; and untenable ideas concerning the Eucharist which surfaced recently on the front page of the Melbourne Advocate (23 June).
551 - Jul 1988 - Growth of a 'new church': the Dutch experiment, Michael Gilchrist
For example between 1960 and 1977 ordinations to the priesthood fell from 318 to 16 a far worse drop than in neighbouring Belgium and West Germany.
552 - Apr 1988 - Books: The Desolate City: The Catholic Church in Ruins, by Anne Roche Muggeridge, Michael Gilchrist
We read that the age of the orange clerical turtleneck dawned and that Fr Gregory Baum formerly a peritus for the Canadian Bishops at Vatican II who then left the priesthood and married without being laicised was now helping to form future priests in Toronto.
553 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria
Fraudulent What without lack of charity we may legitimately find astonishing is this: that people who have adopted positions that imply that from the earliest times the Catholic Church claiming to have a mission from God to safeguard divinely revealed truth has taught and insisted on the acceptance of falsehoods falsehoods enshrined in her most sacred books and is accordingly as much of a fraud as her enemies have always maintained should think it proper to teach such views to those in training for the priesthood.
554 - Jul 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul and the priesthood, Pope Benedict XVI