This is the surest way to tell if you have a calling in any field of life: what ever you think of first thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, THAT is your calling. Not every one has the same talents, not everyone has the same calling. Whatever service gives you peace and joy, that you must do for a fulfilled life.
Roman Catholic AnswerThose studying for the priesthood in a Catholic seminary are called seminarians.
The Pope is the highest level of priesthood in roman catholic religions.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Catholic priesthood was instituted by Our Blessed Lord at the Last Supper.
It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. A Catholic monk celebrates Mass if he was ordained to the priesthood. Usually what used to be called choir monks were all ordained to the priesthood, while claustral or lay brothers were the monks who did all the manual labor around the monastery.
Roman Catholic AnswerIt depends on whether they are ordained or not. A monk is typically called Brother. If is he ordained to the priesthood, before Vatican II this was referred to as a "choir monk" they are referred to as Father, or in Britain, Dom.
No. Not every Catholic is called to the religious life or the priesthood. God calls some Catholics to the married life, and some Catholics serve the Church in the single life.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Bishops share in Christ's priesthood, as they have the fullness of that priesthood conferred on them at ordination.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Bishops share in Christ's priesthood, as they have the fullness of that priesthood conferred on them at ordination.
No, women may not be ordained to the priesthood.
Roman Catholic AnswerOnly the Bishop carries the fullness of the priesthood of Jesus Christ. All priests and deacons in his diocese share in his priesthood, and they all share in the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
Catholic priests take a vow to be celibate for their life in the priesthood.
A Catholic man chooses whether to marry and live as a husband and father of a family, or whether to enter the priesthood. If he chooses to enter the priesthood, he takes a vow of celibacy, that is to remain unmarried. If a Catholic priest and his bishop agree that entering the celibate priesthood was a mistake on his part, the priest may be laicized and released from his vows, that is, he is no longer a member of the Catholic hierarchy but a layman, and free to marry. A fair number of (former) priests did this during the 1960s and 1970s - left the priesthood and married.