In his resignation letter, Smith wrote ... he survived a no confidence vote by the church’s deacons. The vote reportedly was 26-18. In a time when critical voices are increasingly silenced ...

NEW ORLEANS — Archbishop Gregory Aymond is submitting his resignation ... In a letter issued Friday to priests and deacons under his command, Aymond cited canon – or church – law that ...

Pope Francis recently issued a letter "On the Renewal of the Study of the History of the Church." No matter: Francis himself seems to have forgotten the history of women ordained as deacons.

In a resignation letter he sent on 4 December, the former Church letter said he had been ... in active ministry since 1962 when I was made Deacon and then Priested in 1963. It has been an honour ...

Springfield Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, in a letter to parishioners of ... sexual misconduct committed by priests, deacons, or lay employees of the church to call the diocese's hotline number ...

he told a church deacon to destroy it. The deacon told police he used a blow torch to burn the hard drive. In his July 12 letter apologizing to St. Susanna parishioners, Stechschulte wrote that he ...

Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case ... Catholic church law requires a papal ...

the church remains intransigent. Instead, he has taken baby steps down the liberal road: flirted with the idea of allowing women to be deacons – a halfway house to priesthood – before ...