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A priest was arrested in Rhodes after an Estonian tourist said he touched him inappropriately. Local media reported the tourist told police the Greek priest said he was "anointing" his genitals.
Father Daniel J. Roberts was joined by family, friends, fellow priests, bishops and seminarians as he celebrated his first Mass on June 29 at St. Bonaventure Church in Shaler. “Ten years ago, I never ...
In the Jewish tradition, blood is deemed to be life itself, the life force, so to speak. In biology too, of course. Hence, ...
A global audience watched the coronation of King Charles III last week, but no one could see the most important part. Behind a hand-woven screen in Westminster Abbey, Justin Welby, archbishop of ...
And each time his priest performed the rite, Campbell drew comfort from it. The Roman Catholic sacrament of the anointing of the sick uses a special oil that has been blessed by the bishop.
Though King Charles's coronation is televised, there's one moment that will be kept off camera: the anointing. The anointing is the most sacred and solemn moment in the entire ceremony, and is ...
A Nigerian Catholic priest, Rev Father Chinenye Oluoma, has stated that those who say ‘holy ghost fire’ in their prayers are of the antichrists.According to him, such persons do not have the ...
As we have noted, the tradition of anointing goes back to England’s earliest kings and is grounded in the Torah. In Exodus God instructs Moses to “anoint” Aaron and his sons “and consecrate them, and ...