This year marks the 50th anniversary of the renewal of the diaconate as a permanent vocation in the Latin Church. Above, Deacon Greg Kandra blesses the faithful with the Blessed Sacrament in the ...

VANCOUVER, Wash.—Deacon Carl Anderson, whose bearded and patriarchal face adorns the Archdiocese of Seattle's new diaconate handbook, is the epitome of a permanent deacon. The 74-year-old retired ...

Deacon Phillippe is ready for the spotlight! The 18-year-old son of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe makes his acting debut in season three of "Never Have I Ever," which hit Netflix on Aug. 12. In ...

This story was updated at 3:45 p.m. CDT with information about other topics discussed during the press conference. The Vatican commission studying the history of women serving as deacons in the ...

Photo courtesy of OSV News. Molly Cahill: Women deacons. They are the subject of a growing debate in the Catholic Church. So much so, that Pope Francis established multiple Vatican commissions to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Francis speaks to reporters during the flight from Skopje to Rome, at the end of his apostolic journey to Bulgaria and North ...

Pope Francis, rounding out his synod of Amazonian clergy, announced Saturday that he would be reopening a commission to study the history of women as deacons in the early days of the Catholic Church.