On Saturday, June 14, at 10 a.m., the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will welcome eight new permanent deacons during a solemn ...

A Hofstra University professor is at the forefront of a new push that could help transform the 1.3 billion-member Roman Catholic Church: allowing women to serve as deacons and perform some of ...

If both priesthood and the diaconate are officially open for discernment, then why is the discussion about female deacons getting far more traction? The Roman Catholic Church has developed a layered ...

Hofstra University Professor Phyllis Zagano has devoted most of her life to researching and advocating for making women deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis even appointed her to a ...

Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests to Ordain Priests and Deacons from Spain, France and U.S. in Historic Ordination in Rome on October 17, 2024 to foster Gender Equality in Ordained ...

I am an award-winning Catholic author who left the Roman Catholic (RC) Church in order to be ordained and am now a deacon within the Independent Catholic Movement. This movement comprises Catholic ...

Midstate Pennsylvania will soon have three new Priests, according to the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg. The Catholic Diocese ...

In an intimate church service, Reverend Gerry Lococo celebrates mass as an ordained Roman Catholic priest ... women should be allowed to become deacons. Catholic deacons can give sermons and ...

Von George, who became an ordained Roman Catholic deacon less than one month ago in a moving ceremony at the Allentown Diocese’s cathedral, has died after a battle with cancer. The diocese moved ...