by virtue of the sacrament of Holy Orders, acts in persona Christi Capitis [in the person of Christ, the Head]” (“Catechism of the Catholic Church 1545, 1548). “And he took bread ...

It seems most proper that the things necessary for the last Sacraments should be carefully kept in every Catholic family ... What is the Sacrament of Holy Orders? A. Holy Orders is a Sacrament ...

Pope Francis said that a woman cannot be ordained as a member of Catholic holy orders, whether that it has a deacon or a priest, in a May 2024 interview with CBS News.

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Thousands of devotees jostle behind bamboo fences to get a glimpse of the grand procession of the naked, ash-smeared and armed Hindu holy men. The Naga Sadhus are the ...

Men with tonsured heads sit in rows for initiation into an order of naked Hindu ascetic holy men known as the Naga Sadhus, during the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh festival in Prayagraj, India, Saturday ...