diocesan

A bishop is the boss of all the diocesan priests, so needs to be a secular priest not a religious.

In my area, diocesan Catholic schools are very popular, but they don't really seem to solve the bullying issue.

Thomas Aquinas) and the spiritual wellbeing of the faithful is the responsibility of the diocesan bishops and the whole Church hierarchy (Jn 21:15-25, per the Catholic interpretation of those verses).

I don't think anyone seriously believes that you can't do better than diocesan schools anywhere in CPS.

The next issue is this priest was not just a regular diocesan priest.

The Pope can remove Bishops and replace them with persons of his choosing so it’s probably fair to say he ultimately controls diocesan resources.

As a point of fact, my wife and I have met many friends through simply being in our local diocesan youth group.

Prior to Francis, the last pope we had from a religious order (as opposed to a career diocesan) was Gregory XVI in 1831.

And then, when his reforms got to the diocesan and parish levels, a lot of people took them in directions that Pope Paul himself likely would not have approved.

I say kind of because it's specifically a diocesan cathedral.

There are 37,302 diocesan and religious-order priests in the United States vs 3,500,000 full and 500,000 part time teachers in the US + even more support staff.

We think 57% of this goes on health-care networks, followed by 28% on colleges, with parish and diocesan day-to-day operations accounting for just 6% and national charitable activities just 2.7% (see chart).

Diocesan priests “work” for the bishop in a particular geographical area and are in the “corporate” hierarchy of the church.

Pius X decided in 1904 that canon law, which was then scattered throughout thousands of papal and diocesan decrees, decisions, and commentaries, should be collected and simplified into a single authoritative “Code”.

> Even in the Catholic Church, the longest unbroken chain (i.e., for which records survive) of apostolic succession (i.e., which bishop consecrated each bishop) goes only back to the 1400s Our (Episcopal) parish used to have a small framed "genealogy" that purported to trace our diocesan bishop's consecration lineage back to St.

Diocesan priests make two promises, celibacy and obedience; these promises are part of the ordination ceremony.

Diocesan priests tend to be the ones with the most monetary ambition.