Lisa Amman is a cradle Catholic who attended parish schools through 12th grade and then worked at her St. Paul, Minnesota, church for 15 years. She would likely never have learned about St. Phoebe, ...

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 the same ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The global Catholic Church is split on whether to allow women to serve as deacons, a Vatican document showed on Tuesday, just weeks after Pope Francis ruled out any opening on ...

Kevin Kelly, John Milius and Shawn Terkhorn received Holy Orders May 9. They begin their new lives of service to the Catholic ...

At 90 years old, Deacon Lawrence “Larry” Hammel has no desire to slow down. For the last 20-plus years, he’s served as a ...

FRACKVILLE – With the ceremonial laying on of hands, Deacon Paul Spotts was elevated to the priesthood Tuesday during a service in St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church. Metropolitan ...

(RNS) — On Saturday (Sept. 3), 56 pilgrims from four countries will gather in Mexico City to celebrate St. Phoebe’s feast day and consider how they might urge the church to reclaim the diaconate for ...