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With the end of summer, something else is beginning: a new crop of deacons flourishing in Youngstown, Ohio. I haven’t seen any ordination pics yet — Buckeyes, send them my way! — but the Catholic Exponent had a preview a couple weeks back: Bishop George Murry, S.J., will ordain seven men on Sept. 6 at…

The continuing curiosity about and interest in the diaconate has reached the hills of Kentucky. A paper in Lexington has this write-up about the latest class of deacons ordained for the Bluegrass State: Richard Abbey has a new vocation. The senior program leader in the reliability lab at Hitachi Automotive Products is now also a…

Every now and then, I hear from deacons and deacon candidates who ask that very question. Some have seen pictures of deacons in other dioceses in clerical attire and asked, “What’s up with that?” I can almost hear them scratching their heads. I decided to pose that question to someone who knows a lot more…

One of the prevailing truths of the diaconate is that you never know where, or when, you’ll encounter a deacon in the midst of his ministry. This piece from the Georgia Bulletin is a reminder of that: More than a quarter of a million people daily fly out of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. And 60,000…
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