Ordinations

The esteemed Ordinandi Dinner will celebrate 35 years of honouring men set to embark on a religious life as ordained priests in 2025.

Pope Francis’ intended homily for last Sunday’s Holy Mass and ordinations to the diaconate, which was read by Msgr. Rino Fisichella because of the Holy Father’s hospitalization.

Before the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica, a symbol of the Catholic Church’s unity behind the successor of St. Peter, 15 men laid prostrate to express their humility and take vows of chastity and obedience to their bishop.

The first bishop of a special diocese in Great Britain created for Catholics of the Anglican tradition has welcomed the pope's show of support and predicted the fledgling Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham will continue growing and strengthening.

A packed St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica, filled with family, friends and well-wishers, gathered May 11 to see five men become the newest priests for the Archdiocese of Toronto.