{"id":87542,"date":"2026-10-19T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87542"},"modified":"2026-10-19T09:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:31:44","slug":"vatican-upholds-excommunication-of-us-deacon-who-resigned-after-son-was-molested-by-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/vatican-upholds-excommunication-of-us-deacon-who-resigned-after-son-was-molested-by-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Upholds Excommunication Of US Deacon Who Resigned After Son Was Molested By Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Roman Catholic church has uphel<span style=\"color: #000000;\">d <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/22\/louisiana-deacon-excoummunication-appeal\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the excommunication<\/a> of a <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/louisiana\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Louisiana<\/a> deacon who resigned from the clergy after a priest molested his son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scott Peyton learned of the decision by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) \u2013 the Vatican entity in charge of Catholic clerical discipline \u2013 on Friday in a meeting with the bishop of the diocese of Lafayette, J Douglas Deshotel. The DDF cited technical grounds in rejecting Peyton\u2019s appeal, saying he had joined an Anglican congregation, \u201cpublished [that] fact \u2026 on social media\u201d and therefore refused to submit to the Catholic Pope, who since May 2025 has been <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pope-leo-xiv\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Leo XIV<\/a>. \u201cTh<\/span>is act of joining a separated faith community <em>by its very nature<\/em> is an act of refusal of submission to the Roman pontiff and a refusal of communion with the members of the church subject to him,\u201d the DDF said in documents shared with the Guardian by canon attorney Dawn Eden Goldstein, who represented Peyton in his appeal against his excommunication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: The Roman Catholic church has upheld the excommunication of a Louisiana deacon who resigned from the clergy.<\/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":["post-87542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87542","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=87542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87544,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87542\/revisions\/87544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}