The Roman Catholic Church bars most married men from becoming ... 1999). But by the Middle Ages, many priests treated their calling as a "family business," giving preference to their sons for ...

Under the pastoral provision, Father Paul Sullins, a former Episcopal priest, was ordained in the Catholic Church in 2002 after ... men of exemplary faith. Often middle-aged, they are usually ...

One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church ... there were bishops, priests, monks and nuns. In the latter part of the Middle Ages, the pope, as head ...

a leading priest in the church has written the Vatican to accuse that delegate of acting like “an erstwhile inquisitor of the Middle Ages.” Father Kuriakose Mundadan also insisted that refusal ...