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deacons

  1. justme6272

    Is it pointless to designate offerings to specific sub-ministries?

    Why isnt it pointless to designate offering to a church or diversified non-profit when it just means that dept makes their budget sooner? I see it as an organized shell game by the powers at be, but I'm not blaming them if they're just doing what the donor wants. Let's say a children's ministry...
  2. ChristnMe

    Censorship !

    The Romans did it and the world is doing it today. When Jesus was born, He was not born a Nazarene but grew as one due to the influence of the census that the Romans implemented as stated, “a census should be taken of the entire Roman world” - Lk. 2:1. This was when every man and woman had to...
  3. Fish and Bread

    Widowed deacon remarries, gets laicized

    Link: Widowed deacon remarries, gets laicized
  4. Fish and Bread

    Changing Canon Law, Pope Brings Latin and Eastern Practices Closer

    Link: https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/changing-canon-law-pope-brings-latin-and-eastern-practices-closer
  5. Martinius

    Nuns as Deacons could fill a service and ministry gap

    Here is a great story with quotes from Sr. Carmen Sammut, head of the International Union of Superiors General. "There are services that we can give to the church, especially to the peripheral church where we are, which would be opened if we were women deacons." What I noted in this story is...