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What Can and Can't Deacons Do?

By Tim Drake

This Rock Volume 16, Number 8   October 2005     Frontispiece By Karl Keating   Letters   What About the Right to Die? By Fr. Frank Pavone   Common Myths By Fr. Frank Pavone   The Role of Deacons: Then and Now By Tim Drake   What Can and Can't Deacons Do? By Tim Drake   The Restoration of the Permanent Diaconate at the Second Vatican Council By Tim Drake   Who Were the "Great" Popes – and Why? By Fr. William Saunders   What's in a Name? By Carl E. Olson   Soteriology: Catholic v. Protestant By Carl E. Olson   Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant By Steve Ray   Mary the Ark As Revealed in Mary's Visit to Elizabeth By Steve Ray   Inside the Ark By Steve Ray   Step by Step Google versus the Pope By Kenneth J. Howell   Fathers Know Best The Real Presence   Brass Tacks The Complex Relationship between Scripture and Tradition By Jimmy Akin   Damascus Road Reincarnation Meant My Loved Ones Would Cease to Exist By Joanna Bogle   Classic Apologetics The Authenticity of the Gospels By Walter Devivier, S. J.   Quick Questions    Subscribe    Permissions

Can	Can’t
Preach	Consecrate
Teach	Forgive sins
Bring Communion to others	Ordain
Assist at Mass	Anoint the sick
Witness marriages	Confirm
Baptize	Run for political office
Officiate at wake and funeral services	Be younger than thirty-five
Lead prayer
Wear clerics