Rare Concelebration Up until the post-Vatican II era, ritual concelebration was rare and usually only took place at the ordination of a priest or the consecration of a bishop.

Cardinal Raymond L. Burke believes that the "excessive" use of concelebration – the practice of priests saying Mass collectively – can result in their unique role in the sacred liturgy being ...

As a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, which is catholic, not Protestant yet reformed and part of the Anglican Communion of Churches comprising both catholic and protestant Churches I was ...

But the ecclesiastical antics of Augustinian priest Fr Iggy O’Donovan and his colleagues in the priory in Drogheda bring the word irresistibly to mind. As readers will now know, Easter Sunday ...

Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron warned his priests and deacons June 3 that they could be “dismissed from the clerical state” if they participate in a eucharistic liturgy June 12 closing ...

The Holy Father will preside at the concelebration of the Mass. During this rite, those present will be invited to give alms for sick children in Rwanda and Burundi.

Concelebration is the joint celebration of mass by senior clerics. The release of the photo by the Vatican was significant, as the Argentine pontiff has not been seen in public since being admitted to ...

Because concelebration is not foreseen by the rite, that means that only four priests can celebrate the old Mass each day in the basilica.

The Pope's envoy investigating child protection came under fire yesterday for concelebrating Mass with two Irish bishops criticised in the Murphy Report.

The confrontation was sparked by a concelebration between Fr. Wang and Msgr. Matthias Du Jiang, official bishop of Bameng (Inner Mongolia), who also passed from the underground to the official ...

ALTHOUGH I must have written about 250,000 words since starting this column over four years ago, I’ve never had occasion to use the Irish word “lúdramán”.