Pope Francis presided over the ordination of nearly twenty men to the priesthood on Sunday, where he warned them against being vain priests who live first for their own pleasure rather than for God’s.
The bishop of Bandung led the ceremony in lieu of Bishop Murwito still recovering from COVID-19. One of the newly ordained priests is a Jakarta-born ethnic Chinese whose vocation developed in the ...
Ordained in 1969 and now retired, Father Pénoukou spent most of his ministry training future priests—first as a professor, then as Dean of the Faculty of Theology, and later as Rector at the ...