When former deacon Scott Peyton opened his mailbox one day in March and saw a letter from the Diocese of Lafayette, he knew it was not good. “I remember we were in the car,” his wife, Letitia ...

Scott Peyton, a former deacon at a Louisiana church. A priest was convicted of sexually abusing Mr. Peyton’s son, who was an altar boy. Credit ...

The Diocese of Lafayette excommunicated former deacon Scott Peyton after he resigned and told the diocese that sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the molestation ...

A permanent deacon in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, whose then-teenage son was molested by the priest he once served alongside, is now excommunicated after leaving his ministry, because he ...

When former deacon Scott Peyton opened his mailbox one day in March and saw a letter from the Diocese of Lafayette, he knew it was not good. “I remember we were in the car,” his wife, Letitia ...