When Fr. Min Seo Park, a deaf Catholic priest from South Korea, celebrated his first livestreamed Mass in American Sign Language, or ASL, on Feb. 6, over 800 viewers, many of them likely deaf ...
NEW YORK – Anna Wade often sits in a church pew on Sunday and “kind of spaces out a little bit” until it’s time for communion, and then, she said, “that’s it.” Wade’s lack of attention, though, has ...
Mark Rosing has been deaf for most of his life. When he was young, he struggled to understand the homilies and readings at Mass and felt he was not getting much out of it. Eventually it became clear ...
While an estimated 11 million Americans are deaf, about 3.6% of the population, many Deaf Catholics go unreached. Father Mike Depcik offer Mass at the Seton Shrine Basilica in Emmitsburg, Maryland, ...
One of the few Deaf Catholic priests in the United States is working to renew the Church’s ministry to the Deaf in Maryland and beyond through signed Masses, retreats, and an upcoming Eucharistic ...