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Home > News > Top News > Deacons, detailed in new report, are ‘icons of Christ the Servant,’ says USCCB chairman

Deacons, detailed in new report, are ‘icons of Christ the Servant,’ says USCCB chairman

June 25, 2026June 26, 2026

Top photo caption: Candidates for the permanent diaconate lie prostrate before the altar during the Litany of the Saints in the Rite of Ordination Nov. 15 in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold. The nine men were ordained by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., and began ministries of service to the people of the Diocese of…...