Deacon Steve Greco of the Diocese of Orange, California, gives testimony to healing and the power of the Holy Spirit
The commission Pope Francis appointed to study the history and identity of women deacons did not reach a unanimous conclusion about whether deaconesses in the early church were "ordained" or formally "blessed," the pope said.
As the Church in the United States celebrates the 50th anniversary of the restoration of the permanent diaconate, 1,300 deacons and their families — more than 2,700 people in all — flocked to New Orleans for the 2018 National Diaconate Congress, held
Question: My parish is getting a permanent deacon. He is married and already a member of the parish. How might we expect him to help with this ministry and how it relates to the priests and lay people who serve the parish?
Whenever we talk about the Church and “numbers,” it seems we brace ourselves for bad news. Young people are leaving the Church. The American Church is struggling to produce priestly vocations. Fewer people are attending Mass. Fewer people believe in God, or
Deacons, above all else, are servants. The origin of the word in Greek, diakonia, means just that — servant — and it is a role the deacons of the Church enthusiastically have fulfilled since the time of the apostles. For hundreds of
Many Catholics know the roles priests and women religious play in the Church, but are less familiar with other vocations to the ordained and religious life. What follows are brief introductions of brothers, monks and deacons. Brothers A religious brother is not