Support for women deacons has been on the rise in the U.S. church, even among ordained leaders. A Pew Research Center study last year found that 64% of American Catholics support the ordination of ...

This offer is open to new deacons in the Church of England, Church of Ireland, Church in Wales and The Scottish Episcopal Church during the first year after ordination. Living outside the UK? We also ...

On May 21, during an interview with American broadcaster CBS, Pope Francis closed the door on the ordination of women as deacons. Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco of Algiers sees at least three main ...

The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, the Right Revd Anthony Poggo, has been visiting the Diocese of Melbourne in the Anglican Church of Australia, attending two services at St Paul's ...

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Deacons and lectors can give validly and licitly only those blessings expressly allowed by law. 2. Both constitutive and invocative blessings are invalid if the forms prescribed by the Church are ...