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The Holy Father is thought to be the first math major to become pope – and math aficionados say it’s about time.
The stars of The Project were utterly dumbfounded when an illusionist repeatedly read their minds during Wednesday night's episode.
In a fusion of science and art, anatomy takes center stage—in the intimate dissection theater of Pistoia, in the grand wax collection of Florence's La Specola, and in the two skeletons with their circ ...
"What about Galileo?" is among my favorites ... There aren't many, because a priest may have a wife only in one circumstance: A Lutheran or Episcopalian minister who is already married and ...
PALM BAY, Fla. — Two Palm Bay police officers have been identified after recovering Monday after a series of shootings Sunday that left three victims, and the man accused of shooting them, dead ...
O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their ...
Adam, as we discovered in the previous column, was appointed by God to be high priest of humanity. He was called by God the Father to minister and offer sacrifice in the temple of creation by ...
However, priesthood goes back much farther, way before Exodus 32 and the ordination of the Levites to the service of Yahweh, and Aaron’s ordination as high priest. How much farther back?
After the Sign of the Cross at the beginning of Mass, the priest may choose to greet the people with the simple and familiar greeting “The Lord be with you.” He uses this same greeting before ...
A. The Sacrament of Penance remits sin and restores the friendship of God to the soul by means of the absolution of the priest. Q. 726. What is Absolution? A. Absolution is the form of prayer or ...
1. Any priest may confer the blessings of the Church, except those reserved to the Pope, to bishops, or to others. * A reserved blessing which is conferred by a priest who does not have the ...