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First IDC Webinar - a promising start

When deacons are functioning well, the Church is functioning well, said Bishop Shawn McKnight, Archbishop of Kansas City, on the first IDC webinar in April 2026.

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Premiere Announcement: First IDC Webinar, April 18th 2026

You are invited to attend this special event: ‘The Diaconate in the Pope Leo XIV Era’
This is a special Webinar for members of the International Diaconate Centre.
(See details of how to register below)

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Echoes from Mumbai deacons’ wives

After the IDC Deacons wives network latest online meeting on 22-Nov-25, I was able to give a summary of our encounter, sharing it separately with the wives of the Deacons here in Mumbai and I was asked by Fr. Gilbert De’Lima to share this later with the Deacons.

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Encounters in Lithuania

Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Nuncio of the Baltic States, visited the training centre for deacons in Kaunas, where he also met candidates and their wives as well as representatives of the IDC.

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Conference of the Permanent Deacons and Wives in Austria 2025

The conference of the Permanent Deacons and Wives in Austria 2025 took place from 24-26 October in Wels in the diocese of Linz and was held under the biblical motto “Justice and peace kiss each other” (Psalm 85:11)

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