The model for this was a society that already existed at Brescia, under the name of " Priests of Peace ".

The theme of the feast of Saint Francis Xavier, draws light from the Universal Church's declaration of 2009-10 as the Year for Priests.

Priests shall be appointed to parochial churches by the bishops, to whom they shall be responsible for the care of souls and other matters pertaining to them.

The Vatican's official press organ, l ' Osservatore Romano, lobbied for censorship while the Board of Roman Parish Priests and the Genealogical Board of Italian Nobility attacked the film.

He refers to the Sadducees, Jewish High Priests of the time, Pharisees and Essenes, the Herodian Temple, Quirinius ' census and the Zealots, and to such figures as Pontius Pilate, Herod the Great, Agrippa I and Agrippa II, John the Baptist, James the brother of Jesus, and a centuries-long disputed reference to Jesus ( for more see Josephus on Jesus ).

: In the Man-Kzin Wars novel Destiny's Forge, it is revealed that the Black Priests, a powerful cult within the Patriarchy whose members all have completely black pelts, have been responsible for the breeding program to isolate the telepath gene and preserve kzinrret subsapience.

Priests are leaders to whom other believers will often turn for advice on spiritual matters.

Priests staffed temples throughout Egypt, giving offerings to the cult statues in which the gods were believed to take up residence and performing other rituals for their benefit.

Priests and priestess of the varied Orisha are titled Babalorisa for men and Iyalorisa for women.

The title means " Order of Priests " in Latin, and is taken from the first line of the decree ( its incipit ), as is customary for such documents in the Catholic Church.

Priests are sacraments of faith, prefigured in the person of Melchizedek, and must themselves be dispensers of a life other than earthly life ; they must not seek to please men but rather must follow Christian doctrine and life and strive always for holiness and voluntary poverty.

Priests must help the faithful to know and love the liturgy, and for their own part must ever strive to perfect their knowledge of divine and secular affairs.

In his message " The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word " to priests for the 44th World Communications Day ( 16 May 2010 ), Pope Benedict XVI called for them to become digital citizens and engage with the information society, saying, " Priests stand at the threshold of a new era: as new technologies create deeper forms of relationship across greater distances, they are called to respond pastorally by putting the media ever more effectively at the service of the Word .... Who better than a priest, as a man of God, can develop and put into practice, by his competence in current digital technology, a pastoral outreach capable of making God concretely present in today ’ s world and presenting the religious wisdom of the past as a treasure which can inspire our efforts to live in the present with dignity while building a better future?

Priests were chosen from among the main citizens of Delphi, and were appointed for life.

Priests were to avoid everything that might disqualify them for God ’ s service.

In 1938, with the outbreak of violence that would come to be known as Kristallnacht, American Orthodox rabbi Mnachem HaKohen Risikoff wrote about the central role he saw for Priests and Levites in terms of Jewish and world responses, in worship, liturgy, and teshuva, repentance.

With the major royal projects of the Old Kingdom, the High Priests of Ptah were particularly sought after and worked in concert with the Vizier, somehow filling the role of chief architect and master craftsmen, responsible for the decoration of the royal funerary complexes.

* Priests: The formal style for a priest is either The Reverend or The Very Reverend, but for male priests the title Father and the person's last name are frequently used ( such as Father Smith ).

On August 17, 1998, she was received into the Catholic Church by Father Frank Pavone, the International Director of Priests for Life and Father Edward Robinson in Dallas.

These include Baptism, Confirmation ( into the Laity ), and Ordination ( for Deacons, Priests & Priestesses, and Bishops ), and Last Rites.

The Priests were responsible for performing sacrifices at the Temple, the primary method of worship in Ancient Israel.

Presbyterorum Ordinis, the Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests, is one of the documents produced by the Second Vatican Council.

# The Life of Priests ( 12-21 )

## The Vocation of Priests to the Life of Perfection ( 12-14 )

## Aids to the Life of Priests ( 18-21 )

Another notable independent Catholic anti-death penalty organization is Priests for Life.

* Priests for Life ( EWTN Supporters )

* Frank Pavone — priest, Director of Priests for Life, founder of Missionaries of the Gospel of Life

* Directory for the Life and Ministry of Priests

He is the National Director of Priests for Life and serves as the Chairman and Pastoral Director of Rachel's Vineyard.

" On September 22, 2011, Priests for Life mailed a fundraising letter from Pavone to supporters asking for donations.

In 1993, Cardinal O ' Connor appointed him the full-time national director of Priests for Life.

They turned to Pavone for assistance, and he arranged, through his Priests for Life organization, to have the baby transferred to SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in St. Louis where the child received a tracheotomy, and then to have him flown back home, breathing on his own without a machine.

On August 1, 2012, Priests for Life, Father Frank Pavone, and its many ministries were saluted in the United States House of Representatives on Aug. 1.

Six members of the United States Congress, including Rep. Michele Bachmann and Rep. Chris Smith, spent 35 minutes speaking from the floor of Congress about the work of Priests for Life .< ref >< http :// www. priestsforlife. org / congressional-record. pdf ></ ref > C-Span broadcast the Special Order live .< ref >< http :// www. c-spanvideo. org / clip / 3611448 ></ ref >

Frank Pavone of Priests For Life On Call for Comment During Week of Pro-Life Events

The Persians may have experimented initially with ruling Yehud as a Dividic client-kingdom under descendants of Jehoiachin, but by the mid – 5th century BCE Yehud had become in practice a theocracy, ruled by hereditary High Priests and a Persian-appointed governor, frequently Jewish, charged with keeping order and seeing that tribute was paid.

This conflict eventually led to the War of the Priests ( 1467 – 79 ).

* Alcock, Leslie, Kings and Warriors, Craftsmen and Priests in Northern Britain AD 550 – 850.

* Alcock, Leslie, Kings and Warriors, Craftsmen and Priests in Northern Britain AD 550 – 850.

In Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period, edited by Gabrielle Vail and Christine Hernandez, pp. 77 – 114.

Davies comments that the Christian begins from the confession of Jesus as Lord – Jesus who is sovereign over the individual ’ s relation to the state, “ we must understand the state in the context of the command to love one ’ s neighbour .” He had earlier quoted from an article on ‘ Priests and Socialism in Chile ’ written in 1971 by Maruja Echegoyen: “ Loving one ’ s neighbour, which is the first commandment by definition, today means working to destroy the structures that can destroy my neighbour, the people, the poor ”.

* Greene, John P. Between Damnation and Starvation: Priests and Merchants in Newfoundland Politics, 1745 – 1855 ( 1999 ).

The chapter did not accept this and elected Nicolaus von Tüngen as bishop, which led to the War of the Priests ( Warmia Stift Feud, 1467 – 1479 ) between King Casimir IV Jagiellon ( 1447 – 1492 ) and Nikolaus von Tüngen ( 1467 – 89 ) who was supported by the Teutonic Order and King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.

Jansen ( 1990: p. 7 – 8 ) in her treatise on singing bowls relates the experience that David-Néel narrated in her book Tibet, Bandits, Priests and Demons:

With the following words on 16 June 2009, Benedict XVI officially marked the beginning of the year dedicated to priests, "… On the forthcoming Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Friday 19 June 2009 – a day traditionally devoted to prayer for the sanctification of the clergy –, I have decided to inaugurate a ‘ Year for Priests ’ in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the dies natalis of John Mary Vianney, the Patron Saint of parish priests worldwide …"

The surviving manuscripts consist of twelve concertato scores, used for eight soloists who also served in the two choirs, additional parts for one soprano and two basses who perform " bit parts " such as the Wife of Pilate, Peter, Judas, High Priests, etc., and a part for the soprano in ripieno ( stemming from 1742 and 1743 – 1746 ).

* 1997 – William B. Taylor for Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico