Saturday, March 23, 2024

Ex-deacon whose son was sexually abused by a priest is excommunicated from church

Bishop J Douglas Deshotel issued the order after Scott Peyton had resigned from his post, but the abusive priest was not censured… 

 Peyton said Deshotel's words left him gobsmacked. The day before his excommunication, despite having resigned, one of the churches in the Lafayette diocese recognized Peyton as the region's "deacon of the day" in a Facebook post that displayed a photo of him smiling. Now he wasn't even really a Catholic any more in the eyes of his bishop. 

 "That's not Christ-like," Peyton said. "That's … a fancy way of the bishop … telling me to go to hell."…

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