Married clergy are exempted from the obligatory celibacy of the Catholic priesthood.

Last year, six men began training there for the Catholic priesthood.

Sectarian tensions are inflamed and the Catholic priesthood replaces Irish landlords as scapegoats.

I have no objection to his leaving the Catholic priesthood-hisbishop stopped his pay.

But the Catholic priesthood has only three ministerial orders - bishop, priest and deacon.

It was the first, and only, ordination to the Catholic priesthood in Dublin this year.

But it still remains in force so far as the Roman Catholic priesthood is concerned.

Sir, -Pope Francis has lamented the decline in Irish vocations to the Catholic priesthood.

Twenty-two students from St Patrick's College, Maynooth, will be ordained to the Catholic priesthood this year.

The Roman Catholic priesthood must ever stand alone.

Twenty new seminarians are to begin studying for the Catholic priesthood at St Patrick's College(...)

The hatred with which the Catholic priesthood, especially in Italy, Spain, and France, regards Freemasonry is remarkable.

Four students from the Pontifical Irish College in Rome will be ordained to the Catholic priesthood this year.

There several were raised to the Catholic priesthood and one became bishop; others distinguished themselves at the universities.

Nine men were ordained deacons, the penultimate step before ordination to the Catholic priesthood, in Maynooth on Sunday.

In 1995 he was received into communion with Rome and accepted as a candidate for the Roman Catholic priesthood.