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It’s about to happen in one Texas diocese: When the 29 diaconate candidates are ordained June 5 at the McNease Convention Center in San Angelo, the diocese will officially have more deacons (80) than priests (58). The graduates of the intensive, five-year course, will represent the fourth diaconate class since the restoration of the permanent…

That’s the story of one new deacon profiled this week in the Western Catholic Reporter in Canada. The Archdiocese of Edmonton just ordained three deacons — and the paper profiles each of them. A snip: Weeks went by. Then months. And Bill Bell felt a ripple of relief as he thought to himself, “Maybe I…

That’s the question my friend David Gibson is posing over at dotCommonweal, citing the recent CARA study about the permanent diaconate, which notes that — surprise — deacons usually aren’t paid: I know deacons have other jobs, or are very often older, retired, and/or have working spouses, or other forms of support. But that level…

A whopping 33 new permanent deacons — plus three transitional deacons — were ordained in Cincinnati last month, and this is the official class picture.  A full write up is right here. Congratulations! And, of course, ad multos annos!
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