ROME — Six years after arriving to Rome from Scotland to study for the priesthood, Matthew McCafferty and Kieran Burt were ordained deacons in the papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on ...

Deacons first appear in Chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles as the seven men called to serve at table and “look after the accounts.” One of them, Stephen, ...

J ONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - In a heartfelt ceremony Tuesday night, Quinton Thomas was ordained a transitional deacon at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. Blessed Sacrament is Thomas’s home church.

BLACKSBURG – In the teams' second meeting in four days, Virginia Tech comfortably replicated the result from Sunday afternoon in Blacksburg, defeating Wake Forest 85-63 Wednesday afternoon in the ACC ...

Advocates for women deacons often point to St. Phoebe, mentioned in St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans, as biblical proof of female deacons in the early church. RELATED: She was an early church deacon.

Deacons can be married since they do not make a vow or promise of celibacy as priests do. Priests and deacons are ordained. Francis appointed Zagano to a commission that studied the issue of women ...

Four of the new deacons plan to continue their formation and be ordained as priests as the church nears the 50th anniversary of the ordination of its first female priests.

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - In a heartfelt ceremony Tuesday night, Quinton Thomas was ordained a transitional deacon at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. Blessed Sacrament is Thomas’s home church.