BOSTON (AP) - Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley is scheduled to ordain nine new priests this weekend.
The new priests will be ordained during a ceremony Saturday at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.
O’Malley calls the ordination “an especially joyful day for the Church.”
The CatholicTV Network will air the Ordination Mass live.
The new priests are Jeffrey Archer of Hartford, Connecticut; Steven Clemence of Porto Alegre, Brazil; Peter DeFazio of Waltham; George Fitzsimmons of Belleville, Illinois; Kevin Hickey of Boston; Karlo Hocuscak of Shelton, Connecticut; Mark Storey of Montreal, Quebec; Lawrence Tocci of Lexington; and Jiwon Yoon of Taegu, Korea and Lexington.
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