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They eventually settled in San Diego, where Saleh’s father, now a church deacon, worked as a car salesman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Parishioners proceed to the front of the church, where a priest or deacon marks a black cross on their foreheads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

"We hope he'll continue with Francis's agenda going forward," said Rick Stevens, a Catholic deacon from New Jersey who happened to be visiting Chicago when he heard the news.

From BBC ● May 9, 2025

“There was a time when he considered becoming a deacon in the Catholic church,” Perras said.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024

He had not started out on a clerical career, but he had been ordained deacon in 1690 and was later ordained as a priest.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Priests and deacons have marched at rallies and prayed for those detained and deported from Orange County to downtown L.A. and beyond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

Currently the Catholic Church only allows men to become deacons - ordained ministers who can officiate baptisms, weddings and funerals but not mass, unlike priests.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

Two referred to the possibility of women being ordained deacons, and those received the most negative votes even though they passed.

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023

While ordination of women priests is off the table, the question of women deacons was an official agenda item for the meeting.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

When the hymn ended, she held Turner’s hand and walked behind her husband’s casket as the deacons carried it out of the church.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt