In 1983 the Catholic Church introduced the possibility of entrusting the pastoral care, of one or more parishes to a team of priests in solidum. This...

archdiocese. In some cases due to the shortage of priests and the expense of a full-time priest for depopulated parishes, a team of priests in solidum may share...

have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns, and other members of religious life in the Catholic Church. In the late 20th and early...

beneficiary of a simoniacal transaction), was liable to deprivation of his benefice and deposition from orders if a secular priest, or to confinement in a stricter...

degree of consanguinity that gives rise to this prohibition varies from place to place. On the other hand, around 20% of the global population lives in areas...

such parts of it as commend themselves to his own approval. Then-Catholic priest Martin Luther made comments that were later summarized in the 1520 bull...

member of one Church may partake of the Eucharist celebrated in another, and for priests, that they are accepted as celebrants of the Eucharist in the other...

supported married priests and want a free celibacy for priests. In January 2024, Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna supported married priests in Roman Catholic...

adopted for their male members a lifestyle of poverty, traveling, and living in urban areas for purposes of preaching, evangelization, and ministry, especially...

Donation of Constantine was included in the 9th-century Pseudo-Isidorean decretals. Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Catholic priest and Renaissance humanist, is credited...

and the fourth of tithes. In the fourteenth century Ernest von Parduvitz, Archbishop of Prague, instructed his priests to explain in popular sermons...

of the intended purpose e.g. in businesses that use this technique. Dialectic Dissoi logoi Lawsuits against the Devil Murder board Polemic Red team Roman...

under the laws of the jurisdiction where the marriage occurred, and is void ab initio. Although the marriage is void as a matter of law, in some jurisdictions...

In the Catholic Church, the Seal of Confession (also known as the Seal of the Confessional or the Sacramental Seal) is the absolute duty of priests or...

although pastoral care of one or more parishes can also be entrusted to a team of priests in solidum under the direction of one of them, who is to be answerable...

as diocesan priests) are priests who commit themselves to a certain geographical area and are ordained into the service of the residents of a diocese or...

delegate that authority to the priests of his diocese (which most bishops do in the case of abortion). The 1983 Code of Canon Law states: "A person who...

Prohibited degree of kinship Secular clergy Sede vacante Simony Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura Team of priests in solidum Territorial abbot...

the scope of clerical benefit was steadily reduced by Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I. The papacy disputed secular authority over priests' criminal...

foundations were staffed by groups of secular priests, living a communal life and serving an extensive territory. In England these churches were termed...

recite the Divine Office, and, in the case of the men, participate in apostolic activities); and clerics regular (priests who take religious vows and have...

in the wider context of social history. Certain jurists and historians of legal process have seen legal history as the recording of the evolution of laws...

regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either...

sacerdos, which comprises both bishops and, in the common English sense, priests. To refer exclusively to priests in the more common English sense, Latin uses...

priest of the oratory (d. 1874), in Acta genuina sancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini nunc primum integre edita (2 vols., Leipzig, 1874). Most of...

publicly in the church during Mass, by the parish priests of both parties on three consecutive Holy Days. Although the requirement was straightforward in canon...

unchanging practice of the church, only those ordained as priests may grant absolution. The church teaches, based on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, that...

of serious scandal have made it easier for bishops to secure this removal of clerical status from such priests even against the priests' wishes. In the...

ordinations of SSPX priests by SSPX bishops are valid, SSPX priests are prohibited from exercising a priestly function because SSPX priests are not incardinated...

The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed...