Empowered by the Spirit: Deacons and Ministerial Communion in a Synodal Church

Hilmar Pabel is a professor of early modern European history at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and a deacon in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, where he serves as Coordinator of Diaconal Formation. He holds a PhD in history from Yale University and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL) from the Clough School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College. As a beneficiary and advocate of the Catholic intellectual tradition, Dr. Pabel proposes a synergy between scholarship and teaching on the one hand and ministry on the other.