Recently ordained priests–like all priests–are priests because the bishop–and all the members of the presbyterate–laid hands on them, thus leaving them “fit into the body
The Most Holy Virgin Mary is the mother of the Eternal High Priest, Jesus Christ, of whom the prophets announced: Like Melchizedek you are a
A. Institution of the Diaconate in the Church The diaconate is a divine-apostolic institution, and not merely ecclesiastical; the order of the diaconate exists in
There is an institution that appears in every era, wherever there have been men: it is the priesthood. The priesthood comes to give priests who
[1] John Paul II has convoked the 10th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, which will take place around the time of Jubilee
The Imitation of Christ teaches that a “good peaceable man turns all things to good.”[1]The Church has always worked in the same way; when errors
[1] Interest in the Biblical foundation of the evangelical counsels is not something exclusive to the modern era. Nevertheless, it is certain that with the
Currently there are many terrible attacks against the religious life. In a document by the Spanish Conference of Bishops about theology and secularization, a paragraph
There are two meanings of the word mystery: the first, and more common, refers merely to something that is unknown, to something hidden. In this
*The Spanish word used is yerra, meaning the mark that is left after branding an animal; the Spanish footnote reads: Real Academia Española, Diccionario de
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