Holy Spirit Parish is losing a senior parochial vicar next week, but will see a deacon who served the parish as a deacon ...

A Louisiana priest was convicted in the sexual abuse of the ex-deacon’s son. What followed was a lawsuit and now the Catholic Church’s highest censure. By Emily Schmall A Catholic priest who ...

A former deacon was excommunicated from the Catholic Church after his son was sexually abused as a minor by a priest—a penalty the deacon says is meant to silence and punish him. Scott Peyton ...

The Archdiocese of New Orleans announced Monday that a Metairie priest has been removed from ministry after being accused of abuse 20 years before he was ordained as a deacon.

Suspended deacon V.M. Wheeler is focus of ... the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office booked the Rev. Patrick Wattigny — who was ordained a priest in 1994 — with four counts of child ...

A former Louisiana deacon says his own son was sexually abused by a priest. After the deacon left the church, he said he just learned he was excommunicated.

A priest is not half a bishop and a deacon is not half a priest," said Deacon Gerard R. Wilson, executive director of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for the Diaconate.

On June 14, eight men were ordained as Permanent Deacons for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia at the Cathedral Basilica of SS.

FALL RIVER — The Fall River Diocese will welcome a new priest and a new deacon this Saturday, June 13, as Holy Orders are conferred in the context of an 11 a.m. Mass in St. Mary’s Cathedral in ...

Deacon Steve Martinez, the former coordinator of a group in the local Catholic Church charged with reviewing sexual abuse allegations involving the clergy, said Thursday he’s aware of “three other ...

Brennan said the recruitment of deacons is not a direct effort to address a priest shortage (the U.S. had 59,192 priests in 1970, and 35,513 in 2020) but rather to support the parishes.