Through the sacrament of holy orders received May 17, the priests begin their new mission to serve for the good of souls in ...

See scenes from the May 17 Mass with Rite of Ordination to the Priesthood at the Cathedral Basilica in Philadelphia.

A Catholic priest who stole $40,000 of parish funds ... a spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. But advocacy group Catholics4Change rejected the apology as 'hollow'.

Tom Dougherty is a digital content producer for CBS Philadelphia. Before joining CBS Philadelphia, Tom covered sports for NBC Sports Philadelphia. He currently covers breaking news and sports.

The pontiff has said it "breaks my heart" to see priests and nuns driving the ... a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. "He wanted to live more simply." With Pope Francis leading ...

After Villanova, he studied at the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago and was ordained a priest in 1982 ... appointed as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in January 2020.

Rigali remained in that position until 2011, when he retired amid the fallout of a second grand jury report on clergy sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Rigali’s retirement was expected, as ...

1977: Graduated from Villanova University near Philadelphia and entered the novitiate for the ... 1981: Professed solemn vows as a member of the Order of St. Augustine. -- 1982: Ordained a priest of ...

Prevost, taking the name Leo XIV, is a Chicago native, but has strong ties to the Philadelphia area — he graduated from ... He was ordained a priest on June 19, 1982. After earning his licentiate in ...

Although he had not been considered among the likely candidates to become the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics and the estimated 1.4 million in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia ... a ...

"God will send to you the people you need. Sometimes the hope doesn’t come from your heart, but it comes from people around ...

The Archdiocese of Boston has cleared Monsignor Francis Strahan, formerly of St. Bridget Parish in Framingham, of sexual ...