A priest is a 'mediator' between God and Man.
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How are Catholic priests chosen and assigned to specific parishes?
I know that a certain amount of education is necessary before men can be ordained as a Catholic priest. But are all men that received the necessary education ordained as priests? If not, what is the ...
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How does the Catholic Church understand the priesthood of all believers?
In the process of answering a question on the Sacraments, I discovered that Catholic Church accepts the doctrine of the "priesthood of all believers". This rather surprised me since the Church has ...
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Why did priests begin to sacrifice?
I attended a class on the Sacraments last night and the presenter was talking about how Bishops, priests and deacons were specifically mentioned in the NT. It made me wonder, how did Christians get ...
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In LDS (Mormon) theology, what is the Aaronic Priesthood and to whom is it conferred?
I understand that the LDS church institutes that Aaronic Priesthood. In the Old Testament, this was specifically reserved to the tribe of Levi and the family of Aaron.
and you shall gird Aaron ...
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In LDS teaching, why is it said that the Priesthood was returned to earth?
According to LDS teaching, Peter, James and John conferred upon Joseph Smith the Melchizedek Priesthood shortly after John the Baptist had conferred upon him the Aaronic Priesthood.
The title of the ...
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What priesthood did the line of Adam from Seth to Melchizedek and Noah hold in LDS/Mormon teaching?
In the summary of Noah on the lds.org site, it states that Noah was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 10 by Methuselah, his grandfather. Furthermore, in D & C 107:53, it indicates that the ...
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Where did the hierarchical designations of priest, cardinal, bishop, and pope come from in the Catholic church?
Protestantism typically recognizes offices that include pastors, elders, and deacons. Another common belief is the priesthood of all believers, and thus there is no such designation for a particular ...
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In Catholicism, what distinguishes a priestly blessing from a lay blessing?
Lay Catholics are encouraged to bless their children [and homes?] using particular formulas or patterns. As I understand it, these ought to differ in "manner" and formula from blessings performed by a ...
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In what manner did Peter, James and John confer the Melchizedek Priesthood onto Joseph Smith?
According to LDS teaching on this page, a few weeks after John the Baptist conferred on Joseph Smith the Aaronic Priesthood, Peter, James, and John appeared to Joseph Smith to confer on him the ...
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What is the old covenant of Hebrews 8:6?
But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises. ~ ...
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What does it mean for a priest 'to lose faith'?
In some movies, often comedies but sometimes not, they show a priest who is experiencing certain troubles/suffering because he 'has lost his faith'. It is possible, in the course of the movie, that ...
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Did the atonement end on the Cross? [closed]
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
When Jesus said it is finished did he mean that the atonement ...
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What are the natures of the different “priesthoods” mentioned in the old testament
In the old testament, there are three (maybe more?) references to a priesthood.
Genesis 14:18 Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (Now he was the priest of the Most High God.) 19 ...
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The origin of celibacy for Catholic Priests [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When did the prohibition of marriage for priests in the Catholic church originate?
When and why did the Vatican decide that Catholic priests should take a vow of ...
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If the old priesthood is abolished, what is the point of having Catholic priests?
Before Christ, there would be two tabernacles in the temple: an outer and an inner tabernacle. Priests would minister at the outer tabernacle by caring for the lamps, by burning incense to God twice ...
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Did all disciples of Christ's apostles consider priesthood a sacrament?
Is it true that all the disciples of Christ's apostles (including Paul) considered (in their writings of the 1st and 2nd centuries) the priesthood one of the sacraments?
