And I began by noting that Parashat Emor opens with instructions for the Kohanim (Priests): “Hashem said ... (Pharisees), and the breakaway Tzedukim (Sadducees), regarding the ceremony of ...

Of the seven million or so voting-age Jews in the United States, about 239,000 voted, a 93% increase over the last election ...

A married priest can't help giving his first thoughts ... The final solution lies only in heaven, where, as Christ explained to the Sadducees, there is no marriage. Those who live celibately ...

Emor is a single parasha with a short name that means- ‘SAY’. It begins with rules for cohanim-priest, who are allowed to go ...

Rolwing's calling comes as the Catholic Church in the U.S. faces a serious priest shortage. Between 1970 and 2024, the number of priests fell by more than 40%, from 59,192 to 33,589, according to ...

The Rev. Richard J. McGrath was a longtime leader of Providence Catholic High School, run by the Augustinians, whose Midwest ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, founder and Director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. He is an academic and prolific ...

“Being the junior priest, he was often sent out in the field,” recalled Palacios, now an airforce technician. “He would take us out in the parish’s jeep to have lunch.” “It wasn’t ...

Camacho was a young teenager and altar boy in 1985 in the northern Peruvian town of Chulucanas at the edge of the jungle when Prevost arrived to be a parish priest. It was the future pope's first ...