Word: deaconness
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...John Tabor, 28, of Jaffrey, N.H., will be ordained as a Roman Catholic deacon next month after seven years of study in a Vietnamese seminary. Then he will spend the next several years working in a poor Danang parish. Tabor, who went to Viet Nam as a Seabee, has difficulty expressing himself in English these days; he has spoken Vietnamese almost exclusively since he entered the seminary. "It was in 1963, when I first came to Viet Nam, that I began to see things clearly. At least in spiritual matters, the Vietnamese should have been advising the Americans...
...INTERCEPTED communication to Woody Allen from M. Deacon Dake '73, First Class Marshal...
...Wooden is a graying, sober-sided eminence who imparts what one player calls the "respect factor." Who, after all, could doubt a man who is a friend of Lawrence Welk, who admires the writings of Zane Grey and St. Francis of Assisi? Wooden is also a deacon in the First Christian Church of Santa Monica. He reads the Bible daily. He neither smokes nor drinks and will not tolerate profanity. On occasion, he will partake of a "Pat Boone Special" (ginger ale with a dash of grape juice). His strongest expletive is "Goodness gracious sakes alive!" And after a tough...
...Rene Schaller, 37, once studied theology at Strasbourg and Paris but decided he did not have a vocation to the priesthood. Now a marriage counselor, he is married, has two children and is a driving force behind the international expansion of the diaconate. A deacon since 1970, Schaller has made his "parish" a newly built quarter on the periphery of Lyons. There he is president of a tenants' union, which defends renters in disputes with landlords. He also performs marriages and baptisms for anticlerical couples who resent the presence of priests but are willing to accept the new deacons...
...more adventurous than the document that outlined it in its modern form. Pope Paul's 1967 motu proprio (directive given "by his own hand") envisioned the diaconate as a substitute ministry where priests were in short supply. It is the motu proprio that demands, somewhat unrealistically, that unmarried deacons take lifetime vows of celibacy; as a result, few single men have applied. Most of the married deacons resent the Pope's ruling that a widowed deacon cannot remarry, even though that ruling could leave young children motherless (one Detroit deacon has 13 children). Many American bishops would like...