The deacon is called to care in a special way for the modern day “widows and orphans.” This would include, but is not limited to, ministry to the poor, the hungry, the homeless, the imprisoned, the sick, the lonely and the abandoned. The deacon is called in a very special and particular way to be the image or “icon” of Jesus, who “came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45)
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The MSM love a story like this, so such reports are on the increase.
This looks like a very unfortunate misunderstanding.
No, argues the National Catholic Reporter.
Our Diocese of San Jose is getting its first auxiliary bishop in this, our 30th anniversary as a diocese. It will be my first ordination of a bishop I will prepare…or witness! How do you prepare a liturgy you’ve never seen before?
“To declare the matter infallibly settled would in effect make communion with the Catholic church hinge on this issue… Is Benedict trying to avoid that by merely waving ‘infalliblity’ over the question, rather than making an infallible declaration himself?”
– Bryan Cones at U.S. Catholic
There are markedly fewer priesthood students in Germany; a Lutheran Church president has called for the admission of all baptized Christians to a common celebration of the Lord’s Supper.
The bishop of the diocese of St. Gallen [St. Gall] spoke out openly for women’s ordination to the priesthood. “We must search for steps that lead there,” he said. “I could imagine that women’s diaconate could be such a step.”
“If non-Catholic partners can say Yes to the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist, they can also receive Communion.”
“I can imagine an opening up regarding celibacy.”
The Chrism Mass
Apr 19
The way the Chrism Mass is celebrated in some dioceses distorts its ecclesiology. Even though the entrance antiphon refers to all of the baptized as priests (“Jesus Christ has made us a kingdom of priests to serve his God and Father: glory and kingship be his for ever and ever. Amen.” [Rev. 1:6]—also the second reading of the Mass), the procession is often made up of clergy only.