• John Momis, a former Catholic priest and ambassador to China, defeated Autonomous Region of Bougainville's incumbent President James Tanis in the 2010 Bougainvillean presidential election?
• Italian priest Pierino Gelmini remained a respected member of the Roman Catholic priesthood between his imprisonment in the 1970s and indictment in 2010?
• Joachim Piccolomini (pictured) was repeatedly urged by his fellow Servites to become a priest, but felt unworthy to be anything more than an altar server?
• James A. Martin was the world's oldest Jesuit priest at the time of his death at the age of 105 in 2007?
• Blessed Denis of the Nativity was a famous cartographer before he joined the Discalced Carmelites and became a priest?
• ordinary salt may be blessed by Catholic priests and used as a protective sacramental?

Facts on topics related to Priesthood (Catholic Church)

Catholic Church

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli was once thought to have been composed to convince the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music from the Catholic Church?
• ordinary salt may be blessed by Catholic priests and used as a protective sacramental?
• Callistus Valentine Onaga oversees a microbank as part of his position as a Roman Catholic bishop in Nigeria?
• Charles Langdale was one of the first Roman Catholics in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829?
• Professor Ivor Browne was denounced as antagonistic towards the Catholic Church after he came out in support of the mistress of Fr. Michael Cleary?
• Ludwig Schwarz, the Roman Catholic bishop of Linz, Austria, has a doctorate in classical philology and archeology from the University of Vienna?
• Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge is one of the largest Catholic churches in United Kingdom?
• Pino Puglisi was a Roman Catholic priest in the deprived Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio who was killed by the Sicilian Mafia?
• Tacchi Venturi, the personal liaison between Mussolini and the popes, was the architect of the Lateran Treaty, which created Vatican City and made Catholicism the state religion of Italy?
• after the six year study A Christian reflection on the New Age, the Catholic Church rejected all that is close to the New Age?

Anointing of the Sick (Catholic Church)

• after Evelyn Waugh brought a priest to anoint him on his deathbed, lapsed Catholic Hubert Duggan was reconciled to the church, an event Waugh fictionalised in Brideshead Revisited?
• the recently beatified Paul Joseph Nardini died of pulmonary typhus he contracted when giving the last rites to a member of his parish?

Confirmation (Catholic Church)

• William J. Winter, while serving as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, confirmed an estimated 45,000 Catholics?