Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X ALLENTOWN – Three Schuylkill County men were among 15 deacons ordained on Sept. 14 at the ...

Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low ...

Georg Baetzing, Bishop of Limburg and Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, speaks during a press conference. Arne Dedert/dpa Despite opposition from the Vatican, German Bishop Georg Bätzing ...

Despite what appeared to be a rigid no from Pope Francis to the idea of ordaining Catholic women deacons during the pontiff’s interview with CBS News on Monday (May 20), Catholic advocates for the ...

There were three area permanent Catholic deacons ordained on May 11 at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago along with nine other permanent and two transitional Catholic deacons. The Archdiocese of Chicago ...

Tony and Gez had seen it all — and lost it all — in their individual journeys of addiction, recovery and conversion.

Midland native Charles Warner of the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw will be ordained to the transitional diaconate at 11:45 a.m. ET on Thursday, Oct. 2, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. Warner, a ...

ROME — A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, ...

Ronald J. Burns, a member of Jesus the Divine Word Parish in Huntingtown, was among 14 men ordained as permanent deacons by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, for the Archdiocese of ...