"Reconstructing Catholicism" by the Rev. Trish Sullivan Vanni explains the independent Catholic movement that has birthed ...

2022 6:01 a.m. Deacon Christopher James Pujol stood near the fifth row of pews from the back at Mount St. Peter Roman Catholic Church on Monday morning. He was replaying the memory of him as a 7 ...

the Roman Catholic Church is experiencing a chronic shortage of clerics. The idea of women serving as Catholic priests has not been seriously discussed. But women ordained as deacons could fill ...

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions ...