PORTLAND — The Rev. Kevin Hughes has worked with deaf Catholic communities in Missouri, New York and Ontario, Canada, to translate Mass into American Sign Language and now is ready to bring that ...

While the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress in Indiana had ASL interpreters, Father Depcik wanted to focus on the Deaf community by holding this congress. Father Mike Depcik, one of the few Deaf ...

Parishioners pray using American Sign Language during Mass at St. Roman Catholic Church in Milwaukee July 16. (Newscom/MCT/Michael Sears) Editor’s note: This article is one in an occasional series ...

When she moved to Schaumburg 13 years ago, there was one thing Susan Elizabeth Rangel refused to give up: St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church in Chicago. Rangel, who is deaf, has been a member of the ...

Sandra Kindblade and Anita Jazowick sign the psalm during a Mass in sign language in early September in the chapel at St. Peter Parish in Portland, Ore. “When you come here you feel peace. Why?

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 ...

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, ...

When Sue Pedersen would go to church years ago, she had to keep a close eye on the people around her. As parishioners rose from their pews to sing a hymn,pray or take communion, Pederson, a devout ...

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 ...

EDMONTON, Alberta -- When Muskegon native Matthew Anthony Hysell was ordained last week at St. Joseph's Cathedral Basilica in Edmonton, he became Canada's first deaf priest. "The distinction of being ...