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, ...

According to Father Depcik, surveys have found that 96% of Deaf people do not attend church as there are limited services available in American Sign Language (ASL). More than 200 Deaf Catholics from ...

Father Michael Depcik, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales in the Archdiocese of Baltimore who is deaf, converses with Chris Duck, retired coordinator of deaf ministry for the archdiocese, from left, ...

In a moment that some thought might never come, Deaf Catholics from across the country stood side by side, hands raised in prayer, signing in unison -- worshipping in their own language at the ...

Participants of the annual retreat for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing pose with clergy after Mass in Samphran, west of Bangkok, ...