A description of the two ranks of priesthood within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not have a professional priesthood like the ...

'Brethren, We Have Work To Do' Elder D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve opened the Priesthood Session of General Conference by asking those in the Priesthood to become men. 'The Church ...

R.R. Reno takes up the thankless task of critiquing Garry Wills' silly dismissal of the priesthood. Wills basically says that the problem is that decades after a priestless Church of liberal ...

Young Women General President Emily Belle Freeman speaks at the morning session of general conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. This past week was my late ...

Emeritus BYU professor of ancient scripture Robert L. Millet teaches about the difference between an oath and a covenant. Religious covenants bind the participants together in obedience to God, who ...

In his chapter in a new book on priestly celibacy, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI says a historical understanding of the priesthood in the Old and New Testaments makes it clear that celibacy is an ...

As four women prepare for ordination today, facing excommunication from their beloved Roman Catholic Church, they say they embrace the attention – good and bad – their efforts have received. “My sense ...

We read in our Parasha that Moshe is commanded by Hashem to say to Pinchas (25:13) Therefore I give you my covenant of peace. It shall be for him and his offspring after him a covenant of eternal ...