ENDORSEMENTS

Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos
Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy at the Vatican

"It is with great joy that I offer my prayerful support to the launch of WORLDPRIEST.COM. This project, which aims to provide a special set of resources via the Internet to the priests of the world, is dear to my heart as it strives to use the very latest in technology to encourage and help our priests. I pray that Almighty God will bless this initiative and that it will grow into an indispensable aid to our dear priests"

Vincent Nichols
Archbishop of Birmingham UK

"I welcome this new initiative worldpriest.com. This website will be a positive resource for all priests in their daily commitment to serve the Lord. I wish all the organisers every success in this venture; it is a valuable tool of affirmation to our life as priests."

Msgr. Michael J. Curran
Diocese of Brooklyn

"It is with great joy that I welcome the start of this important service to the Church! I know that priests in the United States and throughout the world will find great support and encouragement through worldpriests.com It is a special blessing to begin this ministry during 2005, a year in which our Holy Father has called to whole Church to a deeper love for the Eucharist which is the heart of priestly life. I know that this new venture will assist all priests to have a deeper union with the High Priest. My thanks to all who have worked so hard to establish this service to the Lord and His Church."

Miguel Castellví
Director Vatican Information Service
Holy See Press Office

"We wish to extend our very best wishes to World Priest Com, which begins its activities on the 18th February, feast day of Blessed Angelico whose gracious simplicity and luminous spirituality your site shares. Its a pleasure for us, the Vatican Information Service, to appear on your daily news pages, and we are certain that your site will be regularly consulted not just by priests, but by other people, including perhaps many who come across it by chance in their search for guidance and support. As you yourselves say, worldpriest.com is not just a useful internet address: "It's part of a neighbourhood. It's a conversation"."

Cardinal Desmond Connell DD

"I sincerely hope that www.worldpriest.com fulfils its aspirations and aims to be an online support and resource to priests to help sustain them in their mission of being in Persona Christi."

Cardinal Cahal Daly DD

"It is another way of interpreting the Lord’s call, so often repeated by Pope John Paul 11, "Duc in Altum", go out into the deep, ‘where deep’ is also seen as cyber space, may the ‘catch’ be abundant."

Archbishop Sean Brady DCL, DD

"I applaud this worthwhile project and all associated with it and pray it will be a great grace to the Church"

Archbishop Michael Neary DD

"I am delighted by and deeply encouraged to hear of it. That you should strike out alone with a personal apostolate of this kind gives clear witness to the unceasing work of the Holy Spirit in the Church. It is profoundly in the spirit of the Second Vatican council."

Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto (Apostolic Nuncio)

"Initiatives like www.worldPriest.com can be a new and exciting way of helping priests to meet the call to personal holiness and assisting them to face the challenge of contemporary pastoral ministry."

Bishop Seamus Hegarty DD

"The plan to provide a website, www.worldpriest.com, is another excellent idea which is well worth pursuing. This will have many implications, not least of which will be financial. I shall be following this initative with great interest."

Bishop Philip Boyce DD

"The word of truth will make www.worldpriest.com an invaluable tool for priests and all who are interested in the Gospel and in the Church."

Bishop John Magee DD

"I do believe that the immense possibilities which are opening up with the launching of www.worldpriest.com will go well beyond the wildest imaginings of those who have been truly inspired to give it birth."

Monsignor Thomas Fehily

"Having had the opportunity of studying the plans for the new site, I am thrilled by the many ways in which it will be of great help to all priests both in their own spiritual lives and in their mission to others."

Father Willie Moran OCD

"I hope this site www.worldpriest.com will provide people with a credible profile of the priest and help them better understand his life and mission."