Bishop Joseph C. Bambera will preside as ordaining prelate and principal celebrant Saturday for the ordination of 17 men to the Permanent Diaconate for service as permanent deacons in the Diocese of ...

A deacon who was born and raised in New Kensington was ordained into the priesthood Saturday. The Ordination Mass for the Rev. Christopher J. Pujol took place at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in ...

Will Fergen of Sioux City, Alan Loew of Carroll, Jeff Stanek of Callender and Mark Steinberg of Fort Dodge received the sacrament of holy orders from Bishop Walker Nickless at an ordination Mass.

QUILMES, Argentina — Luis Avagliano served as a permanent deacon for 27 years, but after the death of his wife almost seven years ago he felt God's call to be “the father of many more children”, and ...

Eric Seitz joined the men of the cloth in August 2020, and just two months later, his father, Ben Seitz, was clothed with a deacon's robe. With Father Eric at St. John’s Catholic Church in Wahpeton, N ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — In a first for New Zealand, a permanent deacon participated in the episcopal ordination Mass of his son. More than 3,000 people from throughout New Zealand attended the March 7 ...

Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel will ordain four men to the transitional diaconate on Saturday. The ordination Mass, which will be held at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, will bring ...

Nine men — one priest and eight permanent deacons — will be ordained into the Catholic Diocese of Belleville on Saturday at St. Peter Cathedral. "I personally called these ordandi to Holy Orders in ...

SPRINGFIELD - Hampden resident Leo Coughlin Jr. became a deacon in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in 2001. For the past several years, the 76-year-old Coughlin, who is retired from a ...

Altar servers from the Pontifical North American College carry candles and the crucifix in procession during the ordination of eight deacons from the U.S. seminary in St Peter's Basilica at the ...