A Hofstra University professor is at the forefront of a new push that could help transform the 1.3 billion-member Roman Catholic Church: allowing women to serve as deacons and perform some of ...

Deacon Alexander Marquette remembers a question then-Father Michael Izen asked during a Mass at St. Timothy Catholic School in Maple Lake.

No one knows who the next pope will be, or his stance on women deacons. But Zagano contends the 1.4 billion-member Roman Catholic Church must take major steps to elevate women — or risk losing ...

Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests to Ordain Priests and Deacons from Spain, France and U.S. in Historic Ordination in Rome on October 17, 2024 to foster Gender Equality in Ordained ...

In an intimate church service, Reverend Gerry Lococo celebrates mass as an ordained Roman Catholic priest ... women should be allowed to become deacons. Catholic deacons can give sermons and ...

I am an award-winning Catholic author who left the Roman Catholic (RC) Church in order to be ordained and am now a deacon within the Independent Catholic Movement. This movement comprises Catholic ...

the Roman Catholic Church is experiencing a chronic shortage of clerics. The idea of women serving as Catholic priests has not been seriously discussed. But women ordained as deacons could fill ...

Archbishop Tambala urges newly 27 ordained Deacons to serve with solutions Malawi 24 | Latest News from Malawi | Stay ...

Von George, who became an ordained Roman Catholic deacon less than one month ago in a moving ceremony at the Allentown Diocese’s cathedral, has died after a battle with cancer. The diocese moved ...