The priesthood helped preserve old traditions that underpinned Egyptian culture and its hierarchy helped keep order within society. Religion and priests were central to everyday life in ancient Egypt.

Eleven women took on the all-male hierarchy and centuries of tradition in the Episcopal Church 40 years ago by being ordained as priests, and their audacious actions inspired an eighth-grader in Ch… ...

Pope Leo issues orders insisting that priests must be celibate - Leo also said there must be ‘firm and decisive’ action on ...

In the hierarchy of jobs, ... She has recently completed a memoir about her experience growing up Catholic and how her son's journey to priesthood has brought her family back to the Catholic Church.

The priest-shortage problem was ably presented to the hierarchy by tall, gaunt Louis-Marie Fernand de Bazelaire, 64-year-old Archbishop of Chambéry, but the solutions he had to offer seemed ...

Priests do not receive the fullness of the sacrament of holy orders, ... The hierarchy of the church is a divinely instituted reality. It is what Christ, our Lord and Savior, ...

Judas Priest kicked off their summer 2025 Shield of Pain tour with a show dominated by songs from their classic Painkiller album Thursday night at Rockfest in Turku, Finland. You can see the complete ...

Priests are seen during a special Mass for vocations at Curé of Ars Church in Merrick, New York, Aug. 4, 2022, the feast of St. John Vianney, patron of parish priests. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz) ...

I wanted to root for the new pope who grew up just a few miles from me in Illinois. But his role in the Catholic hierarchy's century-long campaign of organized crime against children made me hesitate.

Historian Matthew Harris discusses his new book, “Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” abut the LDS Church's former priesthood/temple ban, from its racist ...

Historian Matthew Harris discusses his new book, “Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” abut the LDS Church's former priesthood/temple ban, from its racist ...

For most priests, daily life and duties depended largely on their gender and their rank within the hierarchy of priests. At the top of the tree was the high priest, or 'sem priest', the 'First Prophet ...