PRIEST

BASIC R.C. BELIEF

A man who is ordained by a Bishop in the Sacrament of Holy Orders to

perform the Sacrifice of the Mass, hear confessions and dispense

sacraments.

CHRISTIAN COMMENT

The Greek word for priest (hierus) is never used in scripture for a

minister in the New Testament church. As the church declined, it assumed

patterns that were familiar in the Old Testament or in paganism. In both of

these, prominence had been given to a man ordained to dispense forgiveness

through rituals. The role of a priest is foreign to the New Testament.

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