Keywords: diaconate catholic deacons Deacon Dominic Cerrato Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D., is the director of the diaconate for the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, editor of The Deacon magazine ...

On Good Friday more than 660 years ago, the hot cross bun became part of English culture as well as Catholic history. The origins of the beloved baked treat traditionally made with currants ...

Throughout Holy Week, he said, his homilies were focused on the theme of the Holy Year 2025: hope. The sorrow of Good Friday ...

During the service at Holy Cross Catholic Church, a cross bearer moved from station to station. The community was invited to pray alongside him. “This Stations of the Cross is a little bit ...

"Stations of the Cross: A Native American Catholic Journey of Healing and Reconciliation" was written by a Catholic deacon with Indigenous ancestry and is the first set of stations to incorporate ...

Local Catholic leaders in South Bend including Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades and the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, have criticized the Trump administration's policies and rhetoric on ...

A devout Catholic has nailed himself to a cross on Good Friday – for the 36th time in a vow to God after surviving a "miracle" fall. Ruben Enaje, 64, is pictured alongside two other devotees ...

On March 2, without any notice, Johnny Fouad Dawoud, a deacon in the Syriac Catholic Church, was released from a Syrian prison after a decade of confinement.

Hundreds of Catholic faithful gathered at Dinajpur Cathedral to take part in the annual "Way of the Cross," a solemn reenactment of Jesus Christ's final journey to Calvary. This sacred ceremony ...

This is the fourth article in a series profiling the six men who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on May 17, 2025. WESTON -- Deacon ...