Deacon Michael Keable, 81, died Nov. 20 at the St. Cloud VA Hospital. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 30, in St. John’s Abbey Church in Collegeville, with Bishop Donald Kettler, presiding. Burial will follow in the St. John’s Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. in the church.
Eight men continued their journey toward ordination to the permanent diaconate Oct. 14 during the Institution of Readers and Acolytes at St. Mary’s Cathedral in St. Cloud.
Vincent Charles, 61, will be ordained a permanent deacon at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 13 at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Isanti.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 24, at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Richmond. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. The service will be livestreamed.
The act of bearing false witness against someone, or calumny, is a “diabolical cancer” and an attack against the body of the church, Pope Francis said during the audience.
During the June 11-13 spring assembly of the U.S. bishops in Baltimore, it was clear the bishops had to respond to the sexual abuse crisis in the church — and on the last day of their gathering they approved a series of procedures to begin this process.
Ordaining women to the permanent diaconate now, when the church is “crying for ministry,” is a logical way to fulfill its obligation to bring the Gospel to all people, according to panelists at a Jan 15 event at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York.
A new study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University surveyed men and women religious superiors in the United States about the possibility of ordaining women to the diaconate and found that the majority were in favor of the idea.
