Catholic Priest
A Catholic priest (the ancient Greek , "old" by the Latin is a man responsible for service liturgy within the Roman Catholic Church.
The priest is the subject of a vocation that believers identify particular to a call from God. The discernment of the call to the priesthood and priestly formation is to seminar. If that Catholics recognize as the call of God is confirmed by the seminary and the Church , the seminarian is ordained deacon and priest by a bishop.
In the Catholic Church of Latin rite , since the Gregorian reform , the priests must make a commitment to live in celibacy.
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The priest is a "pastor", he "grazes" (symbolically) the people of God. He is responsible to care for his community and teach, because it is an "old" (: Presbyteros: old: priest). He shall preside at the Eucharistic celebration, since it represents Christ in his role as Christ the Head. But its role is well understood as serving as Deacon is first, before being ordained priest. The functions of Deacon and Priest in perfect harmony. Priest serves his community in love and leads to God.
Statistics
According to figures from the agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples . If their numbers grew between 2000 and 2006 is that the clergy increases in Africa and Asia , while it decreased significantly in America and strongly Europe.
In 2006, Catholic priests are divided into 271 091 diocesan priests, up, and 136,171 religious priests whose number shows a steady downward trend since 1978 with a global decline of over 12%, except Asia .
In 2004 , the number of seminarians was 214,629, divided into 113 044 101 585 seminarians and young seminarians .
If there are no precise statistics on the current number of priests who have married after abandoning their ministry, the Italian Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica shows in 2007, based on diocesan figures, that from 1964 to 2004, 69 063 priests left their ministry and that from 1970 to 2004, 11,213 of them have resumed work, whatever their motivations.
Married men ordained priests in the Latin rite not like the priests of the Eastern Rite or pastors Anglicans and Lutherans converted to Catholicism, were, moreover, several thousand .
Sacraments
The priest is the minister of some sacraments , that is to say that he alone can give:
- the baptism (the Deacons are ministers of this sacrament, and, in rare cases, baptism may be given by a lay person );
- the Eucharist ;
- the Sacrament of Reconciliation ;
- the Sacrament of the Sick.
The Catholic Church believes that the priest acts in persona Christi capitis (in the person of Christ the Head). It represents Jesus Christ is the Priest performing the True priesthood.
In contrast, the priest can not administer nor confirmation (except for Eastern Catholic Churches , or at least to have been mandated by its timely Bishop ), nor the ordination , which are the responsibility of a bishop.
Regarding the marriage , the Church traditionally considers that it is the spouses who give each other the sacrament , the priest (or deacon or bishop) being the witness required, and this Only since the Council of Trent Training Canons 232-264 of the Code of Canon Law of 1983 is devoted to the training of priests and holy priests . Since the tenth century , the normal of the priests of the Latin Church is celibacy. It is recognized, although unusual, a married layman in separation and non-minor child can be ordained. Some Catholic priests from the Anglican Communion , are allowed to be married. In the Eastern Churches , married men can be validly ordained. However, once ordained, priests can not marry, and the bishops are chosen only among singles and even monks. Only men can be ordained priests. The status of priests vis--vis the state depends on each country. In 2007, France had 20,277 priests . In 2008, 98 diocesan priests have been ordained in France and 741 seminarians were in training . Since only about 50% of first-year seminarians ordained end can be evaluated at about 66 the number of diocesan priests ordained in 2014. In France , ministers of religion have some legal recognition, regardless of the religion to which they belong. Diocesan priests in France are paid by donations from the faithful. They do not receive a salary directly taken on Sunday or during quests made sacraments. It also speaks but no pay compensation. A priest touches about 950 . But the priests of Alsace and Moselle are paid by the State because the church and state were separated when Alsace and Moselle was German, so they are always under the Concordat. There is no evolution of wages during the life of a priest, except that the cost of living. The French priests outside churches arrangement , receive the same compensation regardless of the function (parish priest, rector of the cathedral, parish priest, vicar ...), only the bishop 's fee is more related to dependents ( travel, miscellaneous expenses ...), about 1 500 . Since 2002, the Day of Prayer for the sanctification of priests takes place the day of the Feast of the Sacred Heart , . In 2009-2010, a year of the priest was announced by the Holy See to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the death of the priest of Ars. It was opened June 19, 2009, the Feast of the Sacred Heart. It ended June 19, 2010 .
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Status of Priests
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Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests
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The traditional degrees of the sacrament of orders in the Catholic Church Minor orders Porter Player Exorcist Acolyte Major orders Subdeacon Deacon Priest Bishop
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