the Roman Catholic Church is experiencing a chronic shortage of clerics. The idea of women serving as Catholic priests has not been seriously discussed. But women ordained as deacons could fill ...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans has come ... to punish and publicly reveal the identities of priests and deacons in at least six separate cases that the church had determined were ...

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions ...

2022 6:01 a.m. Deacon Christopher James Pujol stood near the fifth row of pews from the back at Mount St. Peter Roman Catholic Church on Monday morning. He was replaying the memory of him as a 7 ...

ROME (AP) — Parishoners gathered inside St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood to mark the start of Lent by receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday. Deacon Chris ...