{"id":81660,"date":"2026-03-22T08:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81660"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:39:00","slug":"excommunicated-catholic-deacon-still-waiting-on-overdue-appeal-outcome-after-his-son-was-molested-by-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/excommunicated-catholic-deacon-still-waiting-on-overdue-appeal-outcome-after-his-son-was-molested-by-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Excommunicated Catholic Deacon Still Waiting On Overdue Appeal Outcome After His Son Was Molested By Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\" data-gu-name=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14emo0l\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1v9sla6\">\n<div class=\"dcr-5oiine\">\n<div class=\"src-button-space\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/louisiana\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Louisiana<\/a>\u00a0man who resigned as a Roman Catholic deacon after a priest molested his son and then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/22\/louisiana-deacon-excommunicated-son-sexual-abuse\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">was excommunicated from the church entirely<\/a>\u00a0by his local bishop is asking global church leaders to inform him of the fate of his appeal against the prelate\u2019s decision, something that was supposed to be resolved more than a year earlier.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">+<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"dcr-kn9unn\" data-gu-name=\"body\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1a4fred\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-ydnaza\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector dcr-1c9t5u6\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a letter to the Vatican entity in charge of clerical discipline, a canon \u2013 or church \u2013 law attorney representing Scott Peyton asserts that his case is \u201cnuanced and requires careful consideration\u201d. \u201cTo the extent that the delay reflects such diligence, he is grateful,\u201d said the letter to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), prepared by Dawn Eden Goldstein on 3 February and obtained recently by the Guardian. Nonetheless, the letter continued, Peyton \u201cwishes that I convey to you that, from his perspective, the unduly long span of time with no communication from your office only compounds the injustices that he and his family have suffered from the church\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1774168688\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Excommunicated Catholic Deacon Still Waiting On Overdue Appeal Outcome After His Son Was Molested By Priest\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: A Louisiana\u00a0man who resigned as a Roman Catholic deacon after a priest molested his son and then\u00a0was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}