New Year’s resolutions: You either love ‘em or hate ‘em. This week, Deacon Dean Johnson stops by Talking Catholic to take ...

The South Sudanese Church leader went on to describe the three evangelical vows — celibacy, obedience, and simplicity/poverty ...

Wake Forest never led in a road game against North Carolina. The Deacons did just about everything short of that, though. UNC ...

By Deacon Ryan Burchett For The Catholic Messenger DAVENPORT — During Advent, the Church prays with a special kind of ...Read ...

Pope Francis releases a video message accompanying his prayer intention for May, which this month is that "deacons, faithful in their service to the Word and the poor, may be an invigorating symbol ...

Deacon Frank Ottaviano, 91, of Bedford, NH passed away peacefully on December 14, 2025 surrounded by his loving family. Born in Brooklyn, NY to John and Maria (Blundo) Ottaviano, he was raised in ...

Perhaps someday, the Catholic Church will allow women to serve as deacons. But that time, a Vatican commission has decided, is not now. “In light of Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and ecclesiastical ...

VATICAN CITY — A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church’s practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to ...

The Vatican has issued, solely in Italian, the opinion of the chair of Pope Francis' Second Commission for the Study of the Diaconate. Its substance can be translated quickly: Women cannot be ordained ...

Dec. 4 (UPI) --A commission chosen by the late Pope Francis to study the possibility of women becoming deacons in the Catholic Church has voted against it. Francis established the "Study Commission on ...

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other leadership roles in the Catholic Church. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting ...