Monday, July 7, 2003

Pope appoints three auxiliaries for Detroit today:

Msgr. Walter A. Hurley, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Farmington, U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Fredericton, Canada in 1937 and was ordained a priest in 1965. Msgr. John M. Quinn, director of the Department of Education of

the same archdiocese. The bishop-elect was born in 1945 in Detroit and was ordained a priest 1972. Fr. Francis R. Reiss, pastor of St. Frances Cabrini Parish in Allen Park, U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in 1940 in Detroit and was ordained a priest 1966.

That's a lot 'o new bishops for one Archdiocese in one day. What's up?