Wednesday Liturgy: Follow-up: Accommodating the Deaf

After our piece on deaf vocations (Jan. 1), a reader from South Korea wrote: "Your correspondent with the question about deaf people and religious life/priesthood may be interested to know that in the USA there is a Dominican Congregation for men who are deaf and I know in at least one South Korean diocese where deaf men have been ordained priests."

I am very happy to be able to transmit this information. In fact, at least a dozen deaf men have been ordained in the United States over the last few years and there are several currently studying in seminaries.

If one googles "deaf priests" on the Internet, one can glean valuable information regarding both the reality of deaf priests and the wide range of ministerial possibilities open to them.