‘ Encouraging obedience and missionary zeal, Pope Benedict XVI ordained a group of new priests Sunday, with many of the men coming from Latin America and Africa as the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe struggles with falling numbers of recruits for the clergy.

Just before the men stepped up one by one to pledge their loyalty to the pontiff at the central altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, Benedict stressed obedience and dynamism in spreading the church’s mission to reach all people.

“All of us are part of the network of obedience to the word of Christ,” Benedict said in his homily.’

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