{"id":6112,"date":"2006-09-04T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T08:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/in-the-silence.html"},"modified":"2006-09-04T08:40:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T08:40:50","slug":"in-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/in-the-silence.html","title":{"rendered":"In the silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new religious community:<\/a><\/p>\n

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We are not the problem, we are the solution," says Fr Thomas Coughlin, a deaf Honolulu priest who has founded the Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate with five other deaf men.<\/p>\n

Deaf since birth, it was Fr Coughlin’s lifelong dream to start a religious community where sign language is the primary means of expression at both the eucharistic table and the dinner table, according to the Catholic News Service<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Fr Coughlin was one of five men who made their first profession of vows as Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate last week at St Albert’s Priory in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n

"Necessity is the mother of invention," he told the Hawaii Catholic Herald<\/em>, newspaper of the Honolulu Diocese.<\/p>\n

"I saw how badly we need a religious community of deaf priests and brothers dedicated to a deeper spiritual life and the deaf apostolate in the language of signs and the deaf culture milieu."<\/p>\n

The five men pronounced their vows before Oakland’s Bishop Allen H Vigneron, who formally recognised the new community in 2004. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The community’s website.<\/a><\/p>\n

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