Catholic Priests On Cruise Ships

Our mission was to communicate with the cruise line Father Oubre said.

Catholic priests on cruise ships. Barring unavoidable circumstances HAL has a Catholic priest on every sailing. Sunday Mass even on a cruise ship holding a relatively small number like 1200-1500 passengers will draw 500 worshipers he added. Rarely on those days when the ship is in port from extremely early until very late once I was off the ship at 600 AM and not back until after 700 PM there is no.

After many internal discussions external research and marketing investigations Celebrity Cruises will only place Roman Catholic Priests on sailings that take place over the Easter and Christmas holiday. Of Catholics who are cruise line passengers and crew members. Father Sabella said his 9 am.

In other words because some anti-Catholics objected to daily Mass onboard the ship Celebrity Cruises threw the priestsand the lay. Not surprisingly a whole lot of people would like to serve as ministers priests and rabbis on cruise ships. The Cruise Ship Priest Program screens and vets potential cruise-ship chaplains and works with partner cruise lines to place a Catholic chaplain on their ships.

We had a Catholic priest on our cruise on the Holland American Ryndam. Back to All Shipboard Positions. More than 650 priests have been approved to work on cruise lines where some priests suspended in the wake of the clergy sexual.

In 2002 the USCCB asked the AOS-USA to create a system to verify the names of approved priests for cruise ship. Register for Cruise Ship Jobs Now. Much smaller ships designed for river cruising maybe 50-100 people on board dock in the heart of town shore.

The Church is also mindful of laicized unattached and schismatic priests presenting themselves as Catholic priests in good standing in order to serve on cruise ships. Provides priests for several cruise lines listed below and has a very thorough screening process. We were in the movie theater and the place was standing room only a lot of crew in addition to us Catholic travelers.