Catholic deacons can preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals, but only priests can celebrate mass. Ordaining women deacons was a "fringe proposal pushed by Western progressives" before the ...

(1) When the Mass is sung by a bishop, assisted by a deacon and sub-deacon ... A Requiem Mass is one said in black vestments and with special prayers for the dead. A Nuptial Mass is one said ...

The synod concluded without movement on the question of women deacons, but kept the issue open. That was frustrating to advocates but also has helped some remain hopeful.

Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries were presented with chasubles worn by Pope Benedict ...

Shia LaBeouf, the Hollywood star, is considering becoming a Catholic deacon after finding God while working on a film. The actor converted to Catholicism after working on a film about the 20th ...

25—When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments, the Rev. Anne Tropeano ... was automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic ...

A meeting four years in the making said the ordination of women required further study, but it called for women to have more ...

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a respected German theologian and a longtime conservative voice at the Vatican, told a German church ...

Coadjutor Bishop Joseph Williams shakes hands with Deacon Jerry Jablonowski, who received the Saint Luke Award at this year’s diocesan ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in ... 39.5% and 26% of the population are baptized Catholic respectively. In Africa 19.7% of the population ...

Ted Ebner, coordinator of prison ministry for the Diocese of Phoenix, has words of advice for any adult interested in ...

When she comes up to the altar rail to receive a blessing during Communion while wearing her clerical vestments ... excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church after being ordained as a priest ...