Deacon Zane Langenbrunner is set to sing the Easter proclamation, or Exsultet, at the Easter Vigil Mass Pope Francis celebrates April 8 at St. Peter's Basilica.
"Every year, one of the deacons in the PMAC choir gets to help in singing it. It's
In August 2016 a commission was formed in order to look at questions that were raised with regard to women and the diaconate by the International Union of Superiors General, who asked Pope Francis about it in a May 2016 audience they
A bold vision to form a brotherhood of permanent deacons for pro-life ministry -- the first of its kind -- became a reality this fall when Kansas City Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann signed a decree approving the clerical association Deacons of Hope.
Ordaining deacons on the feast of the archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Bishop Austin A. Vetter of Helena, Montana, told the men to be like them -- "not angels but true messengers of God, proclaiming with your whole selves the Gospel of
In the Catholic Church, permanent deacons "are entrusted with the unique responsibility of bringing Christ to every corner of society," said the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations.
From the earliest times of the Church, deacons served in three ministries at the direction of their bishops, meaning that guy who assists the priest at the altar is more than just a friendly neighbor offering a hand as a junior priest
Deacon Sutton, a licensed psychologist, is a permanent deacon in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Soon after Deacon Sutton was ordained in 1999, he learned of two children who were denied First Communion because they were on the spectrum. “I was very surprised
There are more than nineteen thousand permanent deacons in the United States today. In July, an annual survey of permanent deacons indicated that five hundred eighty seven new permanent deacons had been ordained across the country in twenty twenty. While the number
In late September, Bishop Richard F. Stika of the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, ordained Ken Conklin to the order of the diaconate nine months ahead of his classmates. Deacon Conklin, whose health has deteriorated because of cancer, and who recently entered hospice