Happy Father’s Day, one week early. I posted last month on the man who is a father to a priest in Baltimore, and was about to be ordained a priest himself. Well, yesterday, it happened: This is history in process at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in north Baltimore as Deacon Greg Rapisarda became…

Well, not just any altar server. David James was the assistant moderator of the servers at my parish for nearly a decade — and did a superb job.  (Before anyone asks: yes, we have a priest who acts as moderator for the kids, though it’s his assistant who does the heavy lifting of supervising schedules…

And the local paper has the scoop: Nearly 30 additional men are now formally part of the framework that ministers to the faithful throughout Central Jersey’s Roman Catholic churches following their ordination as deacons in the Diocese of Metuchen. The 29 deacons, most active in their churches for years, were installed by Bishop Paul G.…

Continuing its tradition, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has announced the new “deacon couples” who will be serving parishes upon the ordination of the new deacons this weekend: Cardinal Roger Mahony will ordain 14 men to the Sacred Order of Deacon on June 12 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Those to…

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