Priestly Ordination

Bishop Olivier Schmitthaeusler, Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh, ordained Martin Damo Chour as the Society of Jesus' first Khmer priest on August 19.

"Do not allow yourselves to be enslaved by money, worldliness, and power.  Always take good care of that simplicity that only seeks the Lord," Bishop Raul Dael of Tandag to the news priests.

Bishop Joseph Nguyen Tan Tuoc of Phu Cuong diocese urged eleven newly ordained Jesuit priests to be living gospels for the salvation of God’s people in Vietnam on December 3. The bishop ordained the eleven Jesuit deacons to priests at St. Joseph Jesuit Scholasticate in Thu Duc, Vietnam, on the feast of St. Francis Xavier.

When people hear that Frances and Vincent Vaccaro have three sons who are priests, they might wonder how the parents “did it,” and assume they must be super-saints.

A deacon from Laos who is currently very ill is set to be an ordained priest in the hospital on June 13.

Over 1300 people including priests and nuns on June 8, 2022 attended the priestly ordination of four deacons in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, southern India.

The Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier (Society of Pilar) is thrilled about having 19 new priests, who were ordained across India in May, including five priests who are “only sons” of their parents.