While the number of permanent deacons keeps growing, those ordained to the permanent diaconate are steadily reaching retirement age, with a need to replenish their ranks, according to a study released ...

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston greets newly ordained Deacon Bruce Flagg during an ordination Mass for permanent deacons at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston Feb. 20, ...

Men lie prostrate during their ordination to the diaconate at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel in Chicago Sept. 26, 2020. (Credit: Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic via CNS.) Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — ...

WASHINGTON — The number of permanent deacons in the United States continues to rise, even as the number of deacons approaching retirement also increases, reports a new study commissioned by the U.S.

The number of permanent deacons in America is holding relatively steady, but more than a third of them are also at or approaching the required retirement age for many dioceses. According to experts, ...

Pope Francis recently indicated that he might form a commission that will perhaps look at the question of women deacons. The remarks of the Holy Father, in an exchange with women religious, will ...

As Robert J. Hilliard watched Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin ordain 15 permanent deacons in the Cathedral of St. Joseph last Saturday, his mind roved to his own ordination 20 years ago. Hilliard, 58, a ...

Catholics in Hong Kong have marked the 25th anniversary of having permanent deacons in the diocese. During the celebration, Father Dominic Chan Chi-Ming, chairman of the Diocesan Commission for the ...

Come next spring, at least a few Southern Nevada Catholics may be a bit confused about some of the new faces they'll be seeing around the parish. The guy who preaches a homily during Mass and then, ...

Almost 37 years have passed since Pope Paul VI set in motion the restoration of the permanent diaconate with his apostolic letter of June 18, 1967, Sacram Diaconatus Ordinem. One year after the ...

The Second Vatican Council’s restoration of the diaconate as a permanent order of ordained ministry represents both a retrieval from tradition and an opening up of the church to the world. In the ...

The majority of Chinese church officials at a Beijing seminar believe that the government-sanctioned open church community in China is ready to introduce permanent deacons. Four out of the five groups ...