consecration

Pope’s peace prayer for Ukraine recalls ancient prophesy

By Nicole Winfield — March 25, 2022
ROME (AP) — To hammer home its universal nature, the Vatican translated the text of the prayer into three dozen languages.

First cathedral for Mother Teresa is consecrated in Kosovo

By Lauren Markoe — September 5, 2017
PRISTINA, Kosovo (RNS) — The consecration Tuesday (Sept. 5), which falls on the one-year anniversary of her canonization in Rome, was long-awaited by the small but active Catholic community in Kosovo.

Holocaust-denying bishop defies Vatican again with consecration

By Reuters — March 20, 2015
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) Rogue Roman Catholic bishop Richard Williamson's consecration of Father Jean-Michel Faure, which incurs an automatic excommunication of both men, now creates a new ultra-traditionalist splinter group opposed to any form of dialogue with the Vatican.

Church of England to draft new legislation on women bishops

By Trevor Grundy — July 8, 2013
(RNS) The Church of England's governing body agreed to consider new draft legislation consecrating women bishops by November this year, with the goal of passing new legislation no later than November 2015.
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