Today's Deacon: Contemporary Issues And Cross-Currents - Softcover

Hughes, Alfred C.; Campbell, Frederick F.; Ditewig Et Al, William T.

 
9780809143993: Today's Deacon: Contemporary Issues And Cross-Currents
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0809143992 ISBN 13: 9780809143993
Publisher: Paulist Press, 2006

Synopsis

Renewed as a permanent order of the clergy at the Vatican II council and currently the only growing branch of the clergy in the US, permanent deacons are today assuming an increasingly important role in the Church and its diverse functions. As the deacons' role is constantly refined and redefined, the proceedings of the National Association of Diaconate Directors has emerged as the most important forum for charting and guiding that evolution. This book is a collection of the three keynote addresses to the National Association of Diaconate Directors at their April 2005 annual meeting. An archbishop, a bishop and a deacon hold forth on contemporary issues relevant to the Order of Deacons, in particular the theology of "restorative justice" and the impact and implementation of the new National Directory for Permanent Deacons. An introduction by NADD executive director Deacon Greg Urban is included―as are responses from three distinguished authors: a priest, a deacon, and a lay woman. This collection will make vital reading for all deacon directors and for deacons and their wives, as well as for professors of theology and members of the other two orders (priests and bishops). †

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About the Author

His Excellency Frederick F. Campbell is bishop of Columbus, OH Deacon William T. Ditewig, PhD, is executive director of the Secretariat for the Diaconate as well as of the Secretariat of Evangelization at the USCCB and executive director in Washington, DC, and is the author of 101 Questions & Answers on Deacons (Paulist Press, 2004). His Excellency Alfred C. Hughes, STD, is the archbishop of New Orleans, LA.

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Publisher
Paulist Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0809143992
ISBN 13 
9780809143993
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
112