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.

A new CARA survey warns that the U.S. Catholic permanent diaconate is facing heavy strain as rising retirement and death ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...