Vietnamese Make Up 6% of This Year’s Ordinands in U.S.

Here’s an article about one of them.

Catholic Key’s Kevin Kelly reports: Deacon Duc Nguyen knows he was born in 1968. But he doesn’t know the date.

That’s what happens when a war robs a boy of his childhood.

When he emigrated to the United States in 1982 after two years in a refugee camp in Malaysia, he simply put down “June 1” as his birthday on his visa application. It seemed to the 14-year-old boy as good a birthday as any.

Two days before his 41st birthday, Deacon Nguyen will be ordained a priest of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, fulfilling a promise he made one night on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean.  Read full story here.