What is an Catholic priest called?

Answer 1

This is an ordained man who is authorized to administer the rites of the Catholic church.

Catholic Answer

A priest is an authorized mediator between God and man, he is authorized to offer sacrifice to God for man. A Catholic priest is one who has been ordained by a Bishop with Apostolic succession in the Christian Church to be "another Christ". A Catholic priest is one who offers his body to Christ for Him to use to communicate His grace to men.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon,

S.J.

Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980

Priest.

An authorized mediator who offers a true sacrifice in acknowledgment of God's supreme dominion over human beings and in expiation for their sins. A priest's mediation is the reverse of that of a prophet, who communicates from God to the people. A priest mediates from the people to God.

Christ, who is God and man, is the first, last, and greatest priest of the New Law. He is the eternal high priest who offered Himself once and for all on the Cross, a victim of infinite value, and he continually renews that sacrifice on the altar through the ministry of the Church.

Within the Church are men who are specifically ordained as priest to consecrate and offer the body and blood of Christ in the Mass. The Apostles were the first ordained priests, when on Holy Thursday night Christ told them to do in his memory what he had just done at the Last Supper. All priests and bishops trace their ordination to the Apostles. Their second essential priestly power, to forgive sins, was conferred by Christ on Easter Sunday, when he told the Apostles, "For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for those whose sins you retain, they are retained: (John 20-22, 23). All the Christian faithful, however, also share in the priesthood by their baptismal character. They are enabled to offer themselves in sacrifice with Christ through the Eucharistic liturgy. They offer the Mass in the sense that they internally unite themselves with the outward offering made by the ordained priest alone.

Answer 2

Roman Catholic AnswerCatholic priests have many different jobs: pastor, teacher, confessor, etc. The thing that they all have in common, and is the very definition of a priest is that, by virtue of the sacrament of Holy Orders, the priest acts in persona Christi Capitis. (in the person of Christ, the Head). It is Christ himself who is presen to his Church as Head of his Body, Shepherd of his flock, high priest of the redemptive sacrifice, Teacher of Truth. This is what is mean by "in persona Christi Capitis". from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, # 1548

Answer 3

A priest is a member of the clergy having been ordained by a valid Bishop (valid being - a direct line of succession to the 12 Apostles). The 7 sacraments can ordinarily only be administered by priests with some exceptions for drastic situations.

Priests spend atleast 6 years in a seminary studying philosophy, theology and often Catechism or Cannon Law. A priest is always either Diocesan or part of a religious order (Jesuits, Franciscans, Benedictines etc).

That is how it has been and completely unchanged and unchallenged for almost 2000 years. Protestantism, having split from the Catholic Church, does not have valid apostolic succession (no validly ordained Bishops) and as such do not have Holy Orders or ordained priests.

Answer 4

A Roman Catholic priest leads the congregation in Mass and serves as a model of faith (that is, a representative of Jesus Christ).

Priests also get cool superpowers, like blessing holy water and performing sacraments, like Communion and Matrimony.

My pastor (basically the "head priest" of a parish) gave me a fist bump after Mass today. But that's just another day in the life of the hip, young lector of the twenty-first century.

Answer 5

The name can be any of the catholic saints. Normally in the catholic religion when a baby is born, its a common practice to name him / her after a saints name.

Answer 6

Normally Father