As our local deacon says, he can “carry, marry and bury.” I k now that he can and has Baptized babies (carry) and performed weddings (marry). I am guessing he can also preside at funerals (bury)??
Maybe the PP was confused about the bride and groom ministering the Sacrament of Marriage (rather than Holy Communion) to each other?
Heck, even a lay person can witness a Catholic marriage. It’s not unheard of in our diocese where priests have to travel long distances between parishes. If a priest is not going to be in the parish for more than a month the bishop may, with Rome’s approval, appoint a lay person to prepare the couple and witness the marriage.Maybe the PP was confused about the bride and groom ministering the Sacrament of Marriage (rather than Holy Communion) to each other?
In the marriage rite, the presider acts as the witness for the Church. The bride and groom actually “complete” the Sacrament, so to speak. For that reason alone it doesn’t seem odd to me that a deacon could serve as the witness.
So let me get this straight. You misread their comment; they politely correct you but apologize for potentially misleading you; and you respond like this?
I learned something today, thanks!
Obviously not an ideal situation, but still an interesting bit of information. 
A deacon has full facilities to witness and preside at a wedding same as a the preist, except for the Consecration, by his ordination. He recieves these facilities at his ordination and no other approveal form the ordinary is required. If he presides at a wedding outside of his assiened area, then he would need permision either from the pastor of the parish if within the same diocese, permission from the ordinary of the diocese of the ordinary that he would be going to.
This is inaccurate.
While this is true, it is also true he requires delegation of the faculty in his own parish.
Nope, see above. It may seem that way because in most dioceses, the bishop grants this faculty to each deacon as a matter of course. They do not have to seek permission each time.
It sounds like you are admitting that 1ke’s interpretation of the canons he cited is correct - the faculty of witnessing a marriage is granted by a document from the bishop and permission from the pastor, rather than by virtue of ordination. This is a bit different from what you stated earlier,
For most practical purposes, that statement is true enough, but in unusual situations not as much. For instance, a deacon who is a refugee does not automatically possess faculties in the new territory he has fled to, and I imagine the new bishop could choose not to grant any or to limit such faculties until language skills were adequate, etc.
I am not missing anything. In fact I said precisely that (and in the very post you are responding to)-- a deacon is typically given this faculty (at least in the US) at ordination and does not ask permission each time.
As long as they’re Roman Rite, it’s a non-issue.
I’m bothered by the lack of attention to this portion.
Or even a restoration of something rightly suppressed.
Can’t a parishioner volunteer do it? It doesn’t have to be a priest. The “Approved Person” in our parish is a lay person.
That is not correct. At ordination he becomes a deacon. As a deacon he might be allowed to assist at weddings. He does not require the automatic right to assist at marriage because he is a deacon. The law is quite clear on this. A deacon must be given faculties. If an ordained deacon assisted at a marriage without faculties the marriage would be invalid due to defect of form. A deacon needs faculties to assist at marriage. They may be granted by the ordinary or by the parish priest (called pastor in some countries, to avoid confusion). The faculties may be given generically, i.e. a deacon can assist at all weddings in the stated territory. The faculty may be given specifically for one wedding. The Code of Canon Law makes all this clear.
So if I’m understanding you, correctly- you are not disagreeing with Deacon FAB when he said that deacons receive their faculties at ordination. Your disagree with his statement that it is by his ordination that he has his faculties. Maybe he is not saying it correctly, but I take it to mean that he and other deacons were given their faculties at their ordination.