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Deacon Drake McCalister, a former Pentecostal minister, has been given approval by the Vatican to be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Steubenville. Steubenville Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton received the letter of approval Nov. 6 and will ordain Deacon McCalister Dec. 19 at Holy Family Church in Steubenville. “Thanks be to God! And a strong sense, a sobering sense of the increased responsibility and accountability that comes with ordination to the priesthood,” said Deacon McCalister when he received the news from Rome. Deacon McCalister, a husband and father of five, will become the first married priest to be ordained in the Steubenville Diocese. Since St. Paul VI’s 1967 encyclical “Sacerdotalis caelibatus” (“Of priestly celibacy”), the Catholic Church has allowed on a case-by-case basis married men who enter the Catholic Church from other traditions to be ordained as priests. However, the pope affirmed clerical celibacy as a general law in the Catholic Church

Dieudonné Cardinal Nzapalainga C.S.Sp, is the  Archbishop of Bangui in the Central African Republic and a Spiritan who served as the  Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Bangui from 2009 until mid-2012 when Pope Benedict XVI  appointed him as its Metropolitan Archbishop. The prelate has since 2013 served as the President of the Central African Episcopal Conference.  When Pope Francis appointed him as Cardinal on November 19, 2016, he became the youngest Cardinal and the first born after the Second Vatican Council. He is the world's youngest Cardinal who hails from Africa Source: catholicnewsdailygh.blogspot.com

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A Ghanaian religious nun, belonging to the congregation of the  Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, (SSpS) Sr. Cynthia Addi-Chanagea, SSpS is first African from the congregation to have graduated from university  with a degree in journalism,  NewsWatch  can report. Sr. Cynthia was one of the many who were certified at the 16th graduation ceremony of the African University College of Communications in Accra on Saturday, November 23. Before attaining this feat, She was the second SSpS Sister of the Navrongo /Bolgatanga Diocese and the first SSpS from Our Lady of seven sorrows Basilica, Navrongo. Sr. Cynthia Addi-Chanagea, SSpS studied Secretaryship at the Oxford SHS/ Secretary school, Tema.  She continued to then Accra Polytechnic, now Accra Technical University obtaining a DBS in secretaryship. She worked at the Catholic Communications office in Accra for briefly and moved to the Ghana Cocoa Board for a year . In 2010, She then started her religious vocation tra

 In a meeting with priests and religious in Thailand Friday, Pope Francis urged an inculturation of the Gospel which allows it to have a “Thai face and flesh,” and not be seen as a religion only for foreigners. “Let us not be afraid to continue inculturating the Gospel,” he said Nov. 22 in St. Peter Parish in the district of Sam Phran to the west of Bangkok. “We need to seek new ways of transmitting the word, ways that are capable of mobilizing and awakening a desire to know the Lord,” he said, adding that he was saddened to learn that for many people in Thailand, Christianity is “a foreign faith, a religion for foreigners.” “This should spur us to find ways to confess the faith ‘in dialect,’ like a mother who sings lullabies to her child,” he urged. “With that same intimacy, let us give faith a Thai face and flesh.” It is about more than making translations, he said, “it is about letting the Gospel be stripped of fine but foreign garb; to let it ‘sing’ with the native music