Q. 978. What is the Sacrament of Holy Orders? A. Holy Orders is a Sacrament by which bishops, priests, and other ministers of the Church are ordained and receive the power and grace to perform ...

This is what the Church means by saying that the priest, by virtue of the sacrament of Holy Orders, acts in persona Christi Capitis [in the person of Christ, the Head]” (“Catechism of the ...

This tepid, overplotted first novel about a nun who renounces her vows suffers from a depressing setting--the backward Lithuanian-American mining community of Shackle, W.Va.--and a narrator whose ...

Taking holy orders is a commitment for life both to God and to the Catholic Church, as the man is given certain powers, including passing on God’s forgiveness of sins. The following is a prayer ...

Murder mystery adapted from the book by P D James. The death count continues to rise as Dalgliesh is thwarted by the shrouds of secrecy allowed by the church ...