The Diocese of Mangalore hosted a workshop on Public Relations for its young priests on November 28, 2023, at Shanthi Kiran, Bajjodi, aiming to equip them with essential PR and media skills in an ever-growing world influenced by AI.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have called you and you are mine”. These words expressed to Prophet Jeremiah have become true in the lives of five deacons who were ordained priests on Thursday, April 20, 2023 by His Excellency Most Rev. Dr Peter Paul Saldanha..

In his homily, bishop invited the five ordained ministers to achieve holiness through the order of priesthood. Bishop said, ‘Every ordained priest is called for holiness. A priest becomes holy by celebrating the sacraments. The holiness of a priest doesn’t take away his weaknesses.