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ABBREVIATIONS

Permanentium ) (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998)

EG : Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation On the Proclamation of the Gospel inToday’sWorld ( Evangelii Gaudium ) (Washington, DC: USCCB, 2013) FP : Bishops’ Committee on Marriage and Family, NCCB, A Family Perspective in Church and Society, Tenth Anniversary Edition (Washing ton, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998) GDC : Congregation for the Clergy, General Directory for Catechesis (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference–Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1998) GS : Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ( Gaudium et Spes ) (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1965)

LG : Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ( Lumen Gentium ) (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1964)

NCCB : National Conference of Catholic Bishops (predecessor to the USCCB in the United States of America)

NSD (1996) : Bishops’ Committee on the Permanent Diaconate, NCCB, A National Study on the Permanent Diaconate of the Catholic Church in the United States, 1994-1995 (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1996) OE : Second Vatican Council, Decree on the Catholic Eastern Churches ( Orientalium Ecclesiarum ). In Vatican Council II: Vol. 1: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents , ed. Austin Flannery (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1996)

PDG (1984) : Bishops’ Committee on the Permanent Diaconate,