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• n  the body of ordained religious practitioners

• For the faithful male member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, few matters are as important as the Mormon priesthood.
• It no longer appears a question of if, but how the Vatican will try to restrict homosexuals from joining the priesthood.
• Henceforth, headquarters announced, "all worthy males" may enter the priesthood, a lay office normally attained by all young men in the clergyless church.

News & Articles

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• Six ordained at Cathedral
  Six men were ordained to the priesthood on Thursday at Bismarck’s Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, in the presence of a full congregation and approximately 90 priests whom the six will join in serving the Catholic Diocese of Bismarck.
  June 13, 2013 - The Bismarck Tribune
• Local man ordained to priesthood
  TOLEDO — Leonard P. Blair, bishop of the Diocese of Toledo, will ordain four men to the priesthood at Our Lady Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral, 2535 Collingwood Blvd., at 11 a.m. June 22.
  June 12, 2013 - Port Clinton News Herald
• 35 years later, priesthood ban is gone, but some pain still lingers for black Mormons
  35 years later, priesthood ban is gone, but some pain still lingers for black Mormons by Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 11, 2013 05:30PM MDT June 8, 1978, was a sacred, momentous event — a revelation — in the history of Mormonism, catapulting the Utah-based faith into a new era of global growth. On that day, the LDS Church ended its ban on blacks in its priesthood ...
  June 7, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune

Quotes

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• A Michael Spence in Sydney Morning Herald
  And so it happened that, in this very year of joy for the sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of priests came to light -- particularly the abuse of the little ones, in which the priesthood, whose task is to manifest God's concern for our good,... Pope Benedict XVI http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG46bW2RwVceLegHVO52x6Mpv_pVg Sioux City Catholic Globe http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.catholicglobe.org/news68.1.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGrV_zw2VTg7gZGrDt_8p6zalVzQg Jun 17, 2010 77435 104372 priesthood In the August 2007 edition of the Cowley Chronicle, Spence told his parishioners: Like it or not, we are all in this together. When St Peter writes of ': a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God', he is not...