Msgr Moroney's Blog: Candidacy for Holy Orders

29 April 2018

Candidacy for Holy Orders

We are grateful to Bishop Edgar De Cunha, Bishop of Fall River, who celebrated candidacy with us this morning!

Candidates 2018

Diocese of Rochester

Diocese of Manchester

Archdiocese of Boston

Diocese of Kumbakonam

Diocese of Fall River

Archdiocese of Hanoi

Monsignor James P. Moroney, a priest of the Diocese of Worcester for forty four years, is Pastor of Saint Cecilia Parish in Leominster. He served for many years as Executive Director of the USCCB Secretariat for Divine Worship in Washington D.C., as Rector of Saint John's Seminary in Boston, and as Pastor of Mary Queen of the Rosary Parish in Spencer and as Rector of Saint Paul's Cathedral in Worcester. Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict both appointed him as a Consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome and as Executive Director of the Vox Clara Committee. He is author of THE MASS EXPLAINED (Catholic Book Publishing) which is being published in its third edition this Spring.