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July 2015

July 19, 2015

Who was Stephen?

Over at Christian Crier, at the Patheos Evangelical Channel, writer Jack Wellman has some thoughts...

July 19, 2015

Who was Stephen?

Over at Christian Crier, at the Patheos Evangelical Channel, writer Jack Wellman has some thoughts...

July 15, 2015

Beating cancer, serving the church

Seton Hall University in New Jersey has posted on its website this profile of a...

July 15, 2015

Beating cancer, serving the church

Seton Hall University in New Jersey has posted on its website this profile of a...

July 09, 2015

Ordination update: 18 new deacons for Metuchen

Details: During the past five years, 18 men bonded as brothers as they first discerned...

July 09, 2015

Ordination update: 18 new deacons for Metuchen

Details: During the past five years, 18 men bonded as brothers as they first discerned...

July 08, 2015

Ordination update: 19 new deacons for New Orleans

From The Clarion Herald: In ordaining 19 men as permanent deacons on June 27 at...

July 08, 2015

An interesting lineup of deacons at this parish…

An alert reader—thank you, Frank Weathers—pointed this out to me, from a parish in California:...

July 08, 2015

Ordination update: 19 new deacons for New Orleans

From The Clarion Herald: In ordaining 19 men as permanent deacons on June 27 at...

July 08, 2015

An interesting lineup of deacons at this parish…

An alert reader—thank you, Frank Weathers—pointed this out to me, from a parish in California:...

July 06, 2015

“A proper and permanent rank of the hierarchy”

I bumped into a deacon today who told me about a conversation he had in the...

July 06, 2015

“Confessions of a Minister’s Wife”

How many women married to deacons (or priests?) could relate to this? From Huffington Post,...

July 06, 2015

“A proper and permanent rank of the hierarchy”

I bumped into a deacon today who told me about a conversation he had in the...

July 06, 2015

“Confessions of a Minister’s Wife”

How many women married to deacons (or priests?) could relate to this? From Huffington Post,...

July 02, 2015

“Team ministry” launched in Pittsburgh

Hot on the heels of the announcement that some deacons will serve as parish administrators,...

July 02, 2015

“Team ministry” launched in Pittsburgh

Hot on the heels of the announcement that some deacons will serve as parish administrators,...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Ordination update: 8 new deacons for Springfield

Details: Eight men were ordained permanent deacons by the Most Rev. Mitchell T. Rozanski, bishop...

June 30, 2015

What role can the deacons’ wives have during the ordination rite?

This question popped up this morning on Zenit: Q: In the ordination of permanent deacons,...

June 30, 2015

What role can the deacons’ wives have during the ordination rite?

This question popped up this morning on Zenit: Q: In the ordination of permanent deacons,...

June 30, 2015

Ordination update: 8 new deacons for Springfield

Details: Eight men were ordained permanent deacons by the Most Rev. Mitchell T. Rozanski, bishop...

June 28, 2015

Ordination update: 14 new deacons for Washington

Details: Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, ordained fourteen men as permanent deacons for the...

June 28, 2015

Ordination update: 14 new deacons for Washington

Details: Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, ordained fourteen men as permanent deacons for the...

June 22, 2015

Ordination update: 11 new deacons for Denver

The first picture, from Saturday’s big event, via The Denver Catholic Twitter feed: I’m hoping...

June 22, 2015

Ordination update: 4 new deacons for Greensburg

Details: There were peaks and valleys both en route to becoming a permanent deacon and...

June 22, 2015

Ordination update: 4 new deacons for Greensburg

Details: There were peaks and valleys both en route to becoming a permanent deacon and...

June 22, 2015

Ordination update: 11 new deacons for Denver

The first picture, from Saturday's big event, via The Denver Catholic Twitter feed: I'm hoping...

June 19, 2015

Ordination update: 4 new deacons for Venice

Check out the full story at Florida Catholic. It happened on June 6th, when Bishop...

June 19, 2015

Ordination update: 4 new deacons for Venice

Check out the full story at Florida Catholic. It happened on June 6th, when Bishop...

June 15, 2015

Ordination update: 6 new deacons for Bridgeport

From the Fairfield County Catholic, news of Bishop Frank Caggiano's first diaconate ordination in Bridgeport: "We...

June 15, 2015

Ordination update: 6 new deacons for Bridgeport

From the Fairfield County Catholic, news of Bishop Frank Caggiano’s first diaconate ordination in Bridgeport: “We...