Catholic Women Must Be Valued, Not Clericalized. Dawn Eden Goldstein 3:20 AM. Catholic deacons, priests and bishops are all clerics; each receives in ordination the sacrament of Holy Orders.

Last year, the Diocese of Allentown ordained 47 permanent deacons, more than any other diocese in the country. As ever, all were men. But does that have to be the case? Pope Francis, it appears, wa… ...

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 ...

First, there is no question that there were women deacons in the past, both in the Eastern and in the Western churches. I refer to "women deacons" in this article, not "deaconesses." ...

WASHINGTON — When Pope Francis accepted a proposal at the Vatican May 12 to form a commission to study the possibility of women serving as deacons today, it generated plenty of buzz. The pope ...

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.

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, ...