Compendium on the Diaconate: A Resource for the Formation, Ministry, and Life of Permanent Deacons

In recent years there has been a growing theological-pastoral interest

in ministerial service and ministries in the Church, with a particular

emphasis on the diaconal ministry and role that deacons have in the

Church. The Compendium on the Diaconate: A Resource for the Formation,

Ministry, and Life of Permanent Deacons explores how bishops, along

with their helpers, the priests and deacons, have taken up the service of

community, exercising the divinely established ecclesiastical ministry on

diffe...