The National Directory for the Formation, Ministry, and the Life of Permanent Deacons in the United States (Ascension)

Abbreviations

Congregation for the Clergy, Directory for the Ministry and Life of Permanent Deacons ( Directorium Pro Ministerio et Vita Diaconorum Permanentium ) (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998) Pope Francis, Apostolic Exhortation On the Proclamation of the Gospel in Today’s World ( Evangelii Gaudium ) (Washington, DC: USCCB, 2013) Bishops’ Committee on Marriage and Family, NCCB, A Fam ily Perspective in Church and Society, Tenth Anniversary Edition (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1998) Congregation for the Clergy, General Directory for Catechesis (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference–Libre ria Editrice Vaticana, 1998) Second Vatican Council, Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World ( Gaudium et Spes ) (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1965) Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church ( Lumen Gentium ) (Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference, 1964)

DMLPD

EG

FP

GDC

GS

LG

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

NCCB

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)

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