March 30, 2022 Discerning Deacons recently hosted a booth at the annual Los Angeles Religious Education Congress. This year’s annual conference drew about 5,000 in-person

This work is a prayer for us to experience this time–both the global synod process and this particular Discerning Deacons Listening Session–as Kairos, as the

On Sunday March 13th,  120 men and women gathered in an upper room – at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota to reflect on

March 16, 2022 “I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living.” Psalm 27:13 We prayed this

Last week an extraordinary virtual synodal conversation took place across the Americas. Pope Francis listened to Catholic university students from North, South Central America and

One expressed aim of this Synod is “to inspire people to dream about the Church we are called to be.” (Vatican Handbook 1.3).   As the

“It was hard to walk together…we were supposed to stay in a line, but some people walk faster, others slower, and we’re carrying those very

Pat Ball, Guest Contributor for Discerning Deacons Last week was such an exciting and enriching week for me. I felt the Holy Spirit hovering and

Valuing the role of youth in our Church and society as agents of transformation. Accompanying victims of social and Church injustice with recognition and reparation.