Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection for the readings and Gospel for the 4th Sunday of Advent, Dec. 21, 2025.

At Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church in Annandale parishioners recently venerated a rare relic of the ...

If the church approaches women’s discernment with condescension instead of curiosity, it risks undermining the process of ...

Pope Leo XIV ordered the release of the Summary of the Study Commission on the Female Diaconate last week, marking a new low ...

It was an atmosphere of profound joy on Thursday, December 11, 2025, as fourteen seminarians were ordained to the Order of the Diaconate during the 10th Anniversary celebration of St. Albert the Great ...

The following is the Detroit Free Press' Dream Team for the 2025 Michigan high school football season. School: Novi Detroit Catholic Central. Vitals: 6 feet, 190 pounds.

The women meet all the requirements except one: they're not men. As deacons, they could preach at Mass and preside over baptisms, weddings and funerals.

Rian Johnson’s latest “Knives Out” plunges Benoit Blanc into a murder steeped in faith, scandal and spectacle. Set within a ...

Some Long Island women spoke about their desire to become a Catholic deacon, stating that they meet all the requirements, ...

I would like to tell you about the other Catholic church in town, Light of Christ, which is part of the Ecumenical Catholic ...

As the holiday season approaches, faith leaders in the Sonoma Valley are inviting their communities to embrace the spiritual and cultural traditions that define Hanukkah, Advent, and Christmas. From ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...