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				Deacons celebrate ministry of faith CNS photo by Owen Sweeney III, Catholic Review U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary at the Vatican, greets deacons (from left) Frank Williams, Miles Merwin, and Jim Schmall from the Diocese of Memphis at the National Catholic Diaconate Conference in Baltimore July 2. More than 300 deacons from around the country attended the July 1-4 conference.