Deacon Alvaro Morales Sanchez serves at St. Finbar Church in Bath Beach, and will soon be ordained to the priesthood in the ...

Br. Paul Graupmann, Jeff Pooley and Simon Ortiz came one step closer to the priesthood this past weekend. Pooley and Ortiz ...

The idea of women serving as Catholic priests has not been seriously discussed. But women ordained as deacons could fill the gap, performing baptisms, witnessing marriages, presiding at funerals ...

As Robert Bollinger prepares for his priestly ordination May 17, he looks back with gratitude for his family, seminarian friends, and the providence of God, in whose plan he knew he could trust.

Among those groups was Discerning Deacons, a network aimed at informing Catholics on campus and in parishes about the female diaconate, which allowed RNS to read some of the testimonies submitted ...

The event will be held at Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral. The three Deacons are serving at different parishes in the area.

Once a restaurant server in New York, Deacon Nelson Gerardo Tlatelpa now prepares for priesthood in the Diocese of Brooklyn, ...

Deacon William 'Bill' Cranford, the longest-serving deacon in Arkansas, passes away at 85. He served for 19 years in Jackson, Miss.