advocates of women’s ordination say, how urgent the community’s needs for deacons can be and how women are ready to fill them. For decades, Gladys Whitehouse served the Catholic congregation ...

This is the first article in a series profiling the six men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of ...

Catholic women’s desire to serve as ordained deacons “is not different from what men experience and discern themselves,” he said. Rodriguez, who is affiliated with Discerning Deacons ...

In other words: bishop, priest and deacon. What has been said above refers first and foremost to the Apostles and their successors, the bishops. Those men who receive episcopal ordination receive ...

Deacon Christopher Pujol will be ordained at 10 a.m. June 4 at Blessed ... until the merger of New Kensington and Lower Burrell Catholic schools, which formed Mary Queen of Apostles.

Organized by the Women’s Ordination Conference, a 50-year-old group based in Rome that advocates for women to be made priests, bishops, and deacons, the Catholic Women Strike is planned to go through ...

Taking holy orders is a commitment for life both to God and to the Catholic Church ... The following is a prayer said at the ordination of a priest: Lord, holy Father, … when you had appointed ...

The Catholic church has ruled out ordaining women as priests and, though evidence suggests that women were ordained as deacons in the early church, it has consistently stalled on calls for the ...

The parish of the Holy Spirit in Sook made history for the fourth time in priestly vocations when Deacon Nelbart Peter was ...

Organized by the Women's Ordination Conference, a 50-year-old group based in Rome that advocates for women to be made priests, bishops and deacons, the Catholic Women Strike is planned to go ...