斯科特·佩顿在儿子遭受罪行后加入了圣公会。随后天主教会正式将他逐出教籍。罗马天主教会已维持对这位因神父性侵其儿子而辞去神职的路易斯安那州执事的逐出教籍决定。
Scott Peyton joined the Anglicans after the crime against his son. Then the Catholic church officially expelled him The Roman Catholic church has upheld the excommunication of a Louisiana deacon who resigned from the clergy after a priest molested his son.
斯科特·佩顿于周五在与拉斐特教区主教J·道格拉斯·德肖尔的会面中得知了由负责天主教神职纪律的梵蒂冈教义部（DDF）作出的决定。教义部以技术理由驳回了佩顿的上诉，称他加入了圣公会会众，“在社交媒体上公布了该事实”，因此拒绝服从自2025年5月起担任教皇的利奥十四世。
Scott Peyton learned of the decision by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) – the Vatican entity in charge of Catholic clerical discipline – on Friday in a meeting with the bishop of the diocese of Lafayette, J Douglas Deshotel. The DDF cited technical grounds in rejecting Peyton’s appeal, saying he had joined an Anglican congregation, “published [that] fact … on social media” and therefore refused to submit to the Catholic pope, who since May 2025 has been Leo XIV.